Predictions from the Past that are not too far off
I urge you to watch both of these two videos that predict what life would be like in the future, i.e. now, in the past the 50s and the 60s you might be shocked how dead on some of the predictions are,...
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Coop’s Childhood Part 3 - Real School & Beyond
(Picture left is Bach Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Michigan) Nowadays K-12 school has become such a high stakes endeavor that academically oriented parents like mine might do their best to “game”...
View ArticleWatch it on PBS: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
This coming Monday night, PBS's "Independent Lens" will show a documentary, Spies of Mississippi, which "reveals the full scope of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission’s efforts to preserve...
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Coop’s Childhood Part 4 - Boys, Bushes, Baseball & Beyond
The brooding and mostly repressed sexuality of America in the 1950s that I was born into, was being transformed by a sexual revolution that was taking form in the early 1960s. The seeds of this...
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Coop’s Childhood Part 5 - Divorce & Burns Park
While the events of the U.S. civil rights movement and the Vietnam War were roiling the larger society, the first big event that I was privy to in our little family’s cataclysm was in early April of...
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Coop's Childhood Part 6 - Childhood's End
Long Nook Beach near Truro on Cape Cod My mom rose to the occasion after the divorce with my dad. Though she continued to have a great deal of unresolved anger towards him, and ongoing worries about...
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Coop’s Youth Part 1 - Puberty Pressure Cooker
Our mom, my brother and I returned from two long full developmental weeks of our vacation on Cape Cod, beginning to find some equilibrium as three still emerging human beings, without a male parent in...
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Coop's Youth Part 2 - Summer of Love & Respite
I felt the profoundest sense of relief when the last bell rang ending the last day of my first year at Tappan Junior High School. All us students spilled out onto the big front lawn on the south...
View ArticleThe 3rd Progressive Period: Civil Rights, the Great Society, Medicare -...
Excerpt from my book.Let's Do What Works and Call it Capitalism:Chapter 6. The Third Progressive Period: Civil Rights, The Great Society, Medicare“What is good for the country is good for General...
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Coop's Youth Part 3 - Guides on the Side
I pretty much dreaded the first day of school in the fall of 1967. I was returning to Tappan Junior High now for eighth grade with the memory still raw of my first difficult and painful year in that...
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Coop's Youth Part 4 - Not Quite a Girlfriend
Second semester of eighth grade started in late January of 1968, along with Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on U.S. television and the Tet offensive in Vietnam. My mom worried about an endless U.S....
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Coop's Youth Part 5 - Baseball & Bookends
The cast on my right leg finally came off a week or so after the end of school. All was well with the healed wound and the function of my right leg and I gave up the crutches that I had been mostly...
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Jack Bruce, bassist for Cream, dies at 71
YouTube link to Cream's Sunshine of Your Love for IPad readers who cannot see embedded videoPeter Keenews of the New York times brings us the sad news of the death of Jack Bruce, the bass player and...
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Coop’s Youth Part 6 - Coping Mechanisms
Many of the events of the outside world came into our home on the little twelve-inch black-and-white TV in my mom’s bedroom. As such she tuned in to the 1968 Democratic Convention in late August of...
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Coop's Youth Part 7 - Stumbling to the Finish Line
Among other presents, my brother Peter and I got the Beatles’White Album and Simon and Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme for Christmas, both on our list that our mom had solicited from us....
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"Bodies upon the gears": The 50th anniversary of 417 words to inspire today's...
Cross-posted at Attytood:When you think about the sheer volume of speeches that are delivered on any given day -- from state legislatures to Rotary Clubs to dingy school auditoriums -- the thing that...
View ArticleWhich decade would you want to be part of? 1920's forward
All things being equal, entertainment-wise, policy-wise, etc.... if you could magically teleport yourself to another time, would you?Would you stay in the present day?I have a huge feeling that the...
View ArticleDawn to Dusk - Ashes to Dust
150 years after Appomattox, African-American churchgoers still under attack – one man’s faith is another’s carefully taught fear.
View Article"The Rejected" a just rediscovered documentary on homosexuality from 1961
A recently discovered documentary, called (appropriately) “The Rejected," on the “homosexual problem" shows some differing views on homosexuality from several different standpoints. It was done by...
View Article"The Homosexuals" a grim documentary video on homosexuality filmed in the...
About a week ago, I did a diary on "The Rejected." It was a long-lost report on homosexuality filmed in the early 1960s. https://www.youtube.com/... It discussed some of the history of homosexuality...
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