Earth Day, April 22, 1970 -- Marc Neal and other La Sallians attend the 14th Street event
Ektachrome film was used, ISO 64. The lens was probably my then new 24mm f/2.8 El-Nikkor, which was a great lens.
By the way, the founder of Earth Day, Ira Einhorn, was a radical who murdered his girl friend Holly Maddux, stuffed her body into a trunk and kept it in his bedroom for 18 months. The Earth Day celebration we attended evinced more than a hint of abnormality, if not radicalism. Wikipedia has the Einhorn story. And by the way, April 22nd is Lenin's birthday -- Lenin, who brought on the wrongful deaths of 15 million Russians. Finally, the Earth Day sponsors seem to find people scary -- only thing to do, I guess, is to whittle the global pop down to half a bill. How? Heh...
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