Tag: living
group name: thesixties
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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February 21, 2007 11:00 PM EST --
I was born in the 60's. Early enough to be alive when JFK was shot, but not old enough to remember anything about it. I do remember the original TV show Dark Shadows and the complete lyrics . . . more
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September 24, 2006 10:11 PM EDT --
Tonight I wrote something for a second time that I thought I would never have to think about again.
A friend of mine's son was trying to enlist in the military for the education benefits. I . . . more
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August 30, 2006 11:09 PM EDT --
I love my mama. She's a very simple, homegrown kind of lady that comes from the backwoods of SW Louisiana (and SE Texas later on). She says things that my kids get a kick out of sometimes without meaning . . . more
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April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi.
That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history. . . . more
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May 30, 2008 05:33 AM EDT --
Is that your living room? I asked. No reply. It must be, for it seems so like you – calm, artful, sedate. It is full of grace like Tuesday's child, fair of face like Monday's child and . . . more
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February 21, 2007 05:23 PM EST --
You sit there and you watch it go.
When young , It seemed to move too slow.
A lot of it was spent on play.
The darkness came and took the day.
To lay at night and watch the stars.
And hear the sound . . . more
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April 11, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Sitting at her desk, today the Quill peers into the future and wonders about those who will live one-hundred and ten years from now. She fears a new, and as yet, unseen world where people speak to each . . . more
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September 06, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
I just got off the phone with Nina Falk. I hadn't talked with her for 10 years, not since I visited the tiny village she lives in on Sacramento Street in Berkeley, California.
Back then, I was looking . . . more
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September 08, 2006 02:08 PM EDT --
Sure there was a war going on, the protesters were in full swing but there were some great memories of those days..
My daughters were little..We used to take them to Love-ins in the parks..does anyone . . . more
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February 23, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
Only that morning I had taken a cab home from the BIA Public Health Hospital in Bethel, the largest Yu'pik community in Southwestern Alaska. With me was my two . . . more
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February 02, 2007 04:02 AM EST --
The winter without a blanket
For the homeless soul forsaken,
A shivering body, with an empty wallet,
Whose spirit has already been broken.
The winter without a blanket
The homeless . . . more
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February 05, 2007 08:12 AM EST --
Goodness, thinking way back to the 1960's, back to a tijme when I used to be young.
I graduated from High School in 1963, back when the war in Vietnam was going on. I loved the water so I decided, . . . more
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April 01, 2006 04:13 AM EST --
The morning Sue Hapenny was born, circus elephants danced, lions jumped through rings of fire, and choirs of angels sang throughout the heavens. Or so she was told.
After hours of labor in which . . . more
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December 09, 2006 10:06 PM EST --
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! There are so many new members of the Old Hippie’s Corner (OHC); I thought it might be fun to compile Colonel Possum’s ramblings and tall tales from 2006. . . . more
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February 06, 2007 03:13 AM EST --
I
Jupiter
Wrote his first stanza
Cruising through
The happy jungle of stars
In the dawn of time
II
He breathed
New life into the galaxy by
Feeding . . . more
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October 23, 2006 09:15 AM EDT --
May she R.I.P ~
I never really ever watched this 1950 t.v show that has aired however from the sounds of it, she was very loved and well known actress.
Wyatt Passed away on Friday in . . . more
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June 06, 2006 05:57 AM EDT --
Having been numbed from the senseless assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November, the U.S. was poised for another momentous event: the Beatles' arrival in the U.S.
On February 7, 1964, . . . more
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March 12, 2007 09:41 AM EDT --
Sometimes all it takes is a few words from a stranger to make me straighten up and fly right. Here are some words I came across the other day that might just do that for you: "So many of what we thought . . . more
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March 25, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
It was summer and I hadn’t been married long. Bruce and I were up in Greenville visiting my cousin, Linda, and her husband Sammy. They lived down near the Saluda River in a mobile home; they were . . . more
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