The tiny hamlet of Gardiner, summer, 1970… once the few shops on Main Street closed and the local baseball game wrapped for the night a country quiet and darkness enveloped the place. Having grown up in the shadows of New York City, the peaceful town of Gardiner seemed like everything I had missed in a noisy life. A group of us—seven to be exact—freshly graduated from SUNY New Paltz, took up residence there, across the street from the dark and…