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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: August 2009
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Monday, August 31, 2009. Above, my Mom and brother Brian in the Potsdam quad, around September 1, 1969. My roommate later transferred to another school, wound up marrying a mutual friend, and eventually came out of the closet. I had no understanding of the possibility of being gay at that juncture of my life, but thinking back it explains quite a few things to ...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: December, 1969
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Friday, December 4, 2009. My first semester of college ended quietly that month. I came home for the Christmas break. Above is a photo of my brother Tom and I taken a year or two later - he's playing my new banjo "Norma" which I still have. On December 4, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Weds his bride "Miss Vicki" on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Before a...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: January 2009
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Monday, January 26, 2009. In 1969, the Town of Ontario. Of our family of six, four of us still lived at home. My older sister Liz was in Washington, DC working for The Washington Post. Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevi. Was No. 1 on the pop charts for most of January. The White Album. I can with a high degree of certainly predict that In The Midnight Hour.
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: August, 1969
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Tuesday, July 14, 2009. By the time we got to Woodstock. We were half a million strong. And everywhere was a song and celebration. And we drove along. We joined others hiking towards the festival. We walked along 17B for some distance, then turned left down a road my memory tells me was dirt, though when I visited the site a few years ago it was paved. As I tried t...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: November, 1969
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Friday, October 30, 2009. Later in the speech, known forever after as Nixon's "Silent Majority speech, he adds "And so tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.". College and exposure to different people and ideas was beginning to change me. It was likely that I had my first (of many! Premiers on the then National Ed...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: July, 1969
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Sunday, June 28, 2009. They did issue us with beanies that week in orientation, which I suspect was the last time this tired old ritual was conducted at this or virtually any other college. They were never worn. It seemed to me that many older people did not understand that by this time the times were no longer changing. They had. Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jon...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: October, 1969
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Saturday, October 3, 2009. The revolution starts here. Stopped by my room to ask if I was sell the gramophone speaker I had in my window (I would not). I had joined the staff of the college radio station - WRPS - and was now a DJ. I would continue spinning records, later with WNTS (Northern Twin Colleges) , throughout my years in Potsdam. Student life was highly se...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: June 2009
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Sunday, June 28, 2009. They did issue us with beanies that week in orientation, which I suspect was the last time this tired old ritual was conducted at this or virtually any other college. They were never worn. It seemed to me that many older people did not understand that by this time the times were no longer changing. They had. Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jon...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: December 2009
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Friday, December 4, 2009. My first semester of college ended quietly that month. I came home for the Christmas break. Above is a photo of my brother Tom and I taken a year or two later - he's playing my new banjo "Norma" which I still have. On December 4, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Weds his bride "Miss Vicki" on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Before a...
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today: May 2009
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It Was 40 Years Ago Today. A personal look back at the year 1969 - the Year of Nixon, The Moon, and Woodstock - and Turning 18 and Moving On. Friday, May 15, 2009. Sometime that month - I graduate from W. Ayne Central High School. It was likely around the middle of the month. I have only the vaguest memories of the event. But we boys took pride in the sexual connotation of graduating in '69'. I was a nut. My parents would get a copy of the Sunday edition of the New York Times. Section caught my eye:.