Be-In is held on Boston Common.

Some 150 college-age young people participate – while some 2,000 people of various ages watch – hold what is the first Be-In in Boston during what comes to be called the Summer of Love (the first in the U.S. took place in San Francisco on January 14, 1967). Describing the Boston event, the Boston Globe writes, “Co-eds and kooks ushered in the spring day with love. They gave away chocolates, bubblegum, bracelets, balloons, and daffodils.”