How I experienced that moment.

The achingly sad cover of Rolling Stone that followed.

Five days later, an opening act at a nightclub near my campus played a cover of "Give Peace a Chance." (I wasn't there.)

Just thinking ( Read more... )

One hundred years ago today: the Great Molasses Flood hit Boston.

And 90 years ago today: Michael King Jr. was born. Of course, we know him with a slightly different first and middle name....

One more blast from the past: the Pamela Smart case. Sometimes I think the trial's media circus was a giant reaction to the grimness of the brief (but still ( Read more... )

And now, everyone who was born in a year beginning with 18 is dead. Since today is the day after what would have been my grandmother's 127th birthday, it seems appropriate somehow ( Read more... )

Just finished watching the four-night remake of Roots on the History Channel. Extremely powerful. My head is spinning.....

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... was the Pearl Harbor attack.

Just trying to imagine what the impact of the news was like. I know that my Dad volunteered for the military about one month later, instead of waiting for a draft notice.

I was going to post this yesterday, in honor of the observance of Dr. King's birthday, but I didn't get around to it ( Read more... )

Even though he's performing this afternoon (wish I could have been there, but it has started to snow)....

The Boston Globe reports that Charlie's true history has moved out from the underground. As in "Charlie and the M.T.A." I posted something about this when one of the songwriters died a year or two ago, but this story says that the song really ( Read more... )

To honor what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday, I am posting links to a wonderful set of photos of the Beatles' February 1964 visit to Washington, D.C., immediately after their famous appearance on The Ed Sullivan Showhttp://1stusvisit. ( Read more... )

Today I had a tasty lunch with the cz_unit. We used to do this quite often, but as it turns out, we haven't even seen each other since Darkover. We went into Chinatown to Tony Cheng's Mongolian BBQ, where everybody recognizes him (well, how many 6-foot-8 guys are there?). Thank you, CZ ( Read more... )