Tag: sixties
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May 20, 2008 05:36 PM EDT --
November 22, 1963. 12:30 p.m., Central Time, Dealey Plaza.
Zapruder testimony article HERE
The Presidential car, an open-top, 1961 Lincoln Continental, reached theTexas School . . .
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January 14, 2007 06:38 PM EST --
I was born in 1950 I was one of 7 children . We lived all over Virginia. Petersburg. Fridricksburg.
Seaford, You get the point. My dad was in construction. So we moved a lot. I completed only
One year . . .
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February 02, 2007 07:32 AM EST --
When I was a little girl in the 60's I loved these...does anyone else remember them!!
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September 21, 2009 12:54 PM EDT --
I was not at Woodstock, but my brother was. Woodstock was right near my parents' house in Sullivan County, New York. My brother lived in a tepee on Bob Dylan's land. He stole firewood . . .
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March 13, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
If you were around in 1964, chances are good that you were glued to your family's black and white TV set on three Sunday evenings in February (Feb. 9, 16, and 23). What we didn't know was that . . .
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September 23, 2009 08:06 AM EDT --
The Sixties are over.
Finally the hawks can relax and not worry that those damn hippies are going to keep singing their peacenik songs until World Peace arrives.
Where Have all the Hippies . . .
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April 13, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
In November, 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy beat Richard Milhouse Nixon in a presidential race, undprecented for its extremely narrow popular vote margin. Kennedy was elected president by a substantial electoral . . .
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December 03, 2007 12:32 PM EST --
We are all on a rock hurling through space. That's why sometimes we have this feeling that things are moving way too fast. Time is a train and we're the passengers. Luckily, . . .
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . .
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June 03, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
GATHERITES HAVE BEEN HELPFUL
I have a previous posting requesting help in naming my memoir. THe responses I have . . .
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November 30, 2007 02:28 PM EST --
Before the twentieth century, most of history’s movers and shakers had been young (and almost exclusively young men) because the average life span was so short. In colonial America, if a man . . .
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August 18, 2008 07:02 PM EDT --
We were fixing dinner, and there was a talking head on TV saying that McCain is "the original maverick" of political life. "No he isn't" quipped my wife. "James Garner was . . .
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February 01, 2007 01:57 PM EST --
Every now and then, I chance upon an article which grabs me and takes me back to a place I've been before. It's a place known as The Sixties. This is an excerpt from this wonderful . . .
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March 13, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Greetings Folks, I'd like to call your attention to the new Featured Articles in my group, Chateaux Gathereaux. I've decided to feature Friday Food Notes by David C. who is an expert . . .
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May 23, 2007 06:43 AM EDT --
I remember the sixties,
The long hair and the flowers,
It was up with the people,
With all kinds of powers.
There was Andy Warhol,
And grey haired heads of state,
National guard shooting students, . . .
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August 18, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
Hippiefest 2007 part 1
A beautiful sunny afternoon. A great day to go to the middle of New Hampshire to see musicians, that I have been listening to for over forty years. (Yes, I am . . .
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August 20, 2007 06:50 PM EDT --
After the break. A new group of musicians came on.
Felix Cavaliere's Rascals. He had his own band and they were good. Felix’s voice is still wonderful. He started . . .
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December 12, 2007 07:06 PM EST --
It all started with the Beatles for me. I was a true Beatlemaniac. My friends and I were in my senior year in high school. All we could talk about was the . . .
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September 26, 2008 07:05 PM EDT --
High School Jukebox
This is a lot . . .
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April 22, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
Last night Kelly saw Kris Kristofferson on TV. He did not seem well. His voice was unsteady and shaky and he looked ancient.
Kelly felt the tears well up, not for Kristofferson; . . .
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