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First Earth Day in Milwaukee, April 22, 1970: weather didn't cooperate


Mother Nature didn t exactly cooperate for Milwaukee s first Earth Day. 
April 22, 1970, was packed full of demonstrations, clean-up efforts, speeches and performances to mark the first-ever nationwide environmental rally and teach-in. It should have been a bright, beautiful spring day. 
It wasn t. 
Winds, hail pound state, the Milwaukee Sentinel s front page blared the next day. Actually, Milwaukee was spared the worst of it. The day was windy and mostly overcast with rain in the evening; the worst of the storms skirted the edge of the city, knocking out power in West Allis.
But the threatening skies kept down attendance at some of the inaugural Earth Day doings.  ....

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