Piper joins local high school Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Family moves from Washington Heights to Riverside Drive, leaving bachelor maternal uncle, Martin Smith, who also lived with family, in Washington Heights apartment, where he becomes a recluse. Maternal grandmother, Margaret Ann Norris Smith, dies. Piper joins Puerto Rican gang. Teaches herself to play the guitar. Bikes weekly to Greenwich Village for Sunday breakfast at the Cafe Figaro. Participates in life drawing groups at various locations in Manhattan. Listens to Johnny Pacheco, Charlie Palmieri, Celia Cruz. Sees Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad for the first of many hundreds of times, Greta Garbo's complete oeuvre.