Earth Day Reflections
Pictured above is the late environmental activist and counterculture leader Ira Einhorn presiding over the very first Earth Day 50 years ago this month in Philadelphia. In addition to being the Earth Day guru and a leader of the environmental movement, Einhorn was also a conman who lived off and abused gullible women. One of these was his long-suffering girlfriend Holly Maddux, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. After five years of degradation and abuse, Holly finally found the courage to end her relationship with him. On September 9, 1977, she went to retrieve her belongings from the apartment they...