Tag: random musings
group name: thesixties
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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 . . . more
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February 09, 2007 10:54 PM EST --
This story starts out when I was about two. That was in 1952. My mom said they used to wash the car down at the creek. Yes they even used soap. Can't do that now a days. Well she said I would . . . more
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February 28, 2007 10:50 PM EST --
I remember when we lived in conowingo ,Maryland .I was almost 16. My name is tom. I'm one of seven children . I am nex't to the oldest. We rented an old farm house with a dairy in the back. . . . more
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December 05, 2007 12:10 AM EST --
The following is the first of a series from Colonel Possum’s Tall Tales from the Sixties now reposted to Tom Brokaw’s new group Boom!
Preface to a Multi-Part Series, "Weekend . . . 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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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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February 28, 2007 11:30 PM EST --
How helpful do you think it would be if Gather added a spell check to their publish article toolbar?
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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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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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February 24, 2007 12:57 PM EST --
This started about a year ago. I had put a 1953 bsa motorcycle on line to sell.
It was on one of those free classifieds. I got two hits just after posting. I was only asking 200.00 dollars for the bike. . . . more
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September 25, 2006 09:43 PM EDT --
I'm a cranky 40 something female who longs for the good old days. My longing to go back to the 60's/early 70's is so intense. I loved the music: Pictures of Matchstick Men, Wild . . . 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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October 13, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
My first love was my first car.
Oh, I've had crushes before but never anything close to love -- but that car, that was love.
She wasn't much to look at, just a snot-green . . . more
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July 02, 2007 03:34 PM EDT --
I am a child of God
I am a loyal friend
I love my Gather Friends
I do not smoke {that includes anything smokeable!}
I do not drink alcoholic beverages {used to}
Now I name these friends . . . more
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July 11, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
One sweltering summer day an impoverished woman was wondering in the streets begging for food & money. She had only been given a $1 bill & a crumb of bread. There . . . 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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January 13, 2007 12:11 AM EST --
I have featured Wilhelmine Estabrook’s tale about “Willy’s Wonder Wagon”, her beloved Volkswagen van of yore, at the Old Hippie’s Corner (OHC). It is simply a beautiful story. . . . more
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February 04, 2007 02:51 AM EST --
I need help with this gather. Do you know? If So Please enlighten me.
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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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