C: The Summer of Love
One of the things I am wont to do in times of insomnia is surf Youtube on the old I-Pad. I run across the most amazing things. Last night it was a stroll down memory lane. Here’s what I ran across: This film was produced in 1970 and it is Ms. Rita Abrams’ Strawberry Point (Mill Valley) fourth grade. The Mill Valley song went as viral as you could go back then: a spot on the national news and then radio airtime, which is all I remember. I loved the song back then, but this YouTube presentation is the first I recall of seeing the film. Of course, there was one other way of going viral back then: the commercialization of the hippie movement’s lofty ideals of peace-love-harmony. Remember this one from 1971: 1970 was the year I married, following my freshman year in college. I was smack in the middle of the whole peace-love-hippie movement with straight, long hair down to my waist, parted in the middle—just like you saw on...