Category Archives: youth

The Amnesia of You

October 23, 2010 – 1:12 pm

“As you get old you forget. As you get older you are forgotten.” The other day a woman sent a query to my Facebook page. “Are you who I think you are?” Cheyne had worked at the Milk Bar as a waitress. Cute mulatto singer from London. 21. I remembered her well. I wrote back […]

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Fantastic Zoo – light show

October 19, 2010 – 9:36 pm
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Heading West

October 18, 2010 – 7:56 am

Driving across country in the 70s was a rite of passage for hippie late-comers. Boston – Frisco could be driven in less than 50 hours, but a week on the backroads felt more like Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD. In 1974 my good friend Andy, a flaxen blonde coed from Harvard and I motored west in […]

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Palisades Amusement Park

October 10, 2010 – 10:13 pm

My first trip to New York City was in 1964. My father had business with NY Tel, the parent company of New England Tel. He drove our Ford Station Wagon down from Boston. My mother sat in the front seat. My older brother and I were in the back. New York was a city that […]

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John Lennon 70 Years Old If Not a Day

October 10, 2010 – 12:01 pm

Saturday would have been 70 this weekend. Mark David Chapman killed the ex-Beatle in front of the Dakota on Manhattan’s Uppper West Side to answer his obssession with JD Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. His latest parole hearing ended with a denial of his freedom. Yoko Ono, John’s […]

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