If you are of my generation, born in the late 1940's or early 1950's, one of the most tragic events in our nation's history is permanently imprinted in your mind. Most every person in my age group recalls when and where they heard about the...
Topics: JFK, john f. kennedy, john f. kennedy assassination, john kennedy, kennedy assassination

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The Great American Smokeout is Thursday, November 20. This is the 33rd year for the American Cancer Society to sponsor this special event. I feel like I have to write about the Great American Smokeout. Not just on the Boomer blog but I am also...
Topics: american smokeout, smoking, smoking addiction, tobacco addiction

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I vividly remember the first time I heard the song " Hand Jive. " I was in 9th grade, and it was a school assembly, so the song was being performed by students. I knew by then that I had a hearing deficiency, but still, what I distinctly heard.
Topics: old music, sixties music

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This is a Ditto machine This is a Mimeograph machine. Looks like this one has a hand crank. Near the end of 9th grade we were supposed to fill out our "personality profiles" for the 9th grade equivalent of a "yearbook." Something...
Topics: ditto, mimeograph, old machines

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What a coincidence! Just as I was writing up my personal introduction to the 1960's I find that our friend, Tom Brokaw, just published a "little" book about the Sixties entitled BOOM! Hummm. As in Boomer. So I owe my friend at least a...
Topics: 1960, boomer, boomer generation, sixties, tom brokaw

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