Amos in the Park 1968

It was the summer of 1968, the apocalyptic change time for the planet, and Amos found himself in Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side, and was picked up by Beat poet Hunce Voelcker who took him back to slum apartment on East Third Street.

"You can live with me!"

Voelcker at the time was studying Hart Crane who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge in MA program at City University, poet himself "joy rock statue ship"

took Amos home to smoke hippie dope, then Robin came, obviously gay. (Amos had HEARD about these New York homosexuals!) Discussed esoteric vocabulary -- apparently "secrets" was San Francisco for "visions". They all went down to visit Betsy Muir from GOSHEN on Avenue B, she was all flashing, as usual

then down to Katz's Delicatessen on Houston Street, FIRST KNISH with mustard for Amos!

Katz's was all like "Buy a Salami for your Boy in the Army!" this was 1968

In Tompkins Square Park were the aged Russian immigrants reading from Cyrillic Bibles

Amos stoned, retreated back up to Midtown Manhattan, the New York Theological Seminary hosting the Goshen/EMC Summer Urban Seminar, with J. Howard Kaufmann and Hubert Pelman from EMU

Lord! Lord! The First Park!

And Amos worked for two weeks on the roof of the Midtown YMCA, providing towels for the gay men, studying urban sociology by day and on weekends smoking dope in the Ramble!