Earth Day Memories - the First Earth Day 1970

[NewHampster]

I was a freshman at ASU and there was a concert for Earth Day.

I have a Vivid memory of Flower children coeds painting their naked bodies with, what else, Flowers. Your mothers young DUers.

What a wondrous day it should have been. Then the Hells Angel guy got bored and picked a fight with the poor fellow who happened to be nearest his bike. The ugly animal things I witnessed should not have happened on Earth Day.

:hippie:

[livetohike]

1. I was a senior in high school

and we had an assembly, but I can't remember who spoke. It certainly wasn't as memorable as your first Earth Day :-).

[hyphenate]

2. There used to be this park

on Washington Street between Roslindale and Dedham. We used to walk past it all the time. It was filthy. Broken bottles, cans, tires--you name it, it was a dump. I often told one of my friends that someone should clean it up. I was about 13, and this was like 1969. I didn't live in the neighborhood, though, so there was little I could do. Well, Earth Day 1970 came and went, and a couple of weeks later, I was walking passed that park. The city had taken it upon itself to clean it for the first Earth Day. I have to tell you, the grin I had went from ear to ear.

I got involved in many events as I got a little older, but one of the most memorable was the Involvement Day at the Hynes Auditorium (it wasn't named the "convention center" yet) in 1976. Jacques Cousteau, John Denver, Pete Seeger and several other memorable performers made it unforgettable. I always wished we could have another day just like that one.

[NewHampster]

3. Beautiful memory

I wonder if the park is still there and if so is it clean.

Have you been back?

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5. Haven't gotten over to that area since I moved back to Mass

yet. It's over an hour's drive now, in from Worcester. I've made a few trips skirting the area, but since I eventually have to get over to the cemetery to "visit" a few folks, it'll be a good time to check it out then.

[NewHampster]

4. whateva

:kick:

[Taverner]

6. I was in a dark wet container

And kept hearing this slosh slosh. lub dub sound....a few months later I was taken out of the container, slapped in the ass and exposed to a frigid bright world. The bastards!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Junior in HS... Thought I could save the world

what a simp I was.

We have been on such a ride since then, huh? They just drive us where ever they want now.

[MaineDem]

8. I was a freshman at Maine

There was so much going on that spring. Moratorium, much anti-war stuff, Kent State would happen in a few weeks.

Earth Day was this big celebration on the Mall in the center of campus. I remember music and speeches on the steps of the library.

Melanie's "Lay Down Candles (in the rain)" pops into my mind for some reason.

[NewHampster]

9. Kent State

Did Maine have a student strike afterwards?

Out in Arizona I had the great pleasure of being the first in and last out of the ROTC building when we took over for a day.

Melanie, wow.

I was into Zep and Ten Years After

[MaineDem]

10. A strike and a march to the President's house

The rest of that semester is still a blur.

[slinkerwink]

11. I remember a bunch of us deaf kids from the deaf school were picking

up trash in front of the school, and a TV News camera came by and interviewed me. I think I said that it was really important to protect the environment so that the deer could still keep playing. I was eight at the time, I think.

[NewHampster]

12. Were you CT. by any chance Slink

I grew up down the road from ASD (I think thats the acronym) in W. Htfd.

We used to play touch football against some guys at the school when I was a kid. They were rough mothers. Kicked our butts even though it was flag football.

Before your time obviously.

[slinkerwink]

13. nope, it was in MO

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

14. Late story: 6th grade, elementary school....

Here's how I remember it:

We were in the cafeteria. For the windows you could see the road in front of the school which went down a slight incline into the woods, where people dumped a lot of things - washing machines, sofas, old cars, the usual.

At the top of the hill a few of us noticed an old car and a couple guys with it - it was a 1955 Chevy, primer gray. In those days I could tell the make model and year of everything..

The car starts rolling down the hill, no driver. It rolls to the borttom of the hill and hits this small incline and bounces up, almost turning over.

Every kid in the place went wild. Ran to the windows, teachers trying to get them to sit back down.

Later after school a few of us went back in the woods to see where they'd put the car. It was down one of the trails, the last in line of about four other abandonded ones. No engine.

Today that whole area is a development, of course. And I bet that car would be worth over $3000 as is, even without the motor.