My ‘Summer of Love’ Came to an Unlovely Ending

This is the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love,” the seemingly seminal event of the decade known as the Sixties. For the true boomer, the entire decade of the “twenty-teens” is marked by 50th anniversaries of some kind that occurred in the 1960s, some good, some not so good: JFK’s election and subsequent assassination; Bobby K, too; MLK “I have a dream” speech and, sadly, his murder also; Ed Sullivan introducing the Beatles in February 1964; Ford introducing the Mustang; Woodstock, if you…