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Remembering George McGovern

November 10, 2012

James J., 60, is a doctor who lives in Connecticut. The audio interview will tell how James met George McGovern as he campaigned for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination in Massachusetts. Click the red link below left to listen to the interview. Forty years ago, the Democratic Party could not have been in worse disarray. They had succumbed to the new Republican “Southern Strategy” and were left with a small, ultra-liberal core. But George McGovern bravely galloped into battle against Richard Nixon and was soundly thumped. People may not...

And The Word Was Made Hip

May 16, 2012

There was an explosion of language when I was a girl, something my parents, grandparents and the cop on the corner highly disapproved of. “You were such a nice girl,” my worried mother would say when I was 20, “Now I can’t understand a word you’re saying.” “Ma,” I’d say coolly, Don’t flip your wig, ok? In my mother’s...

Riding The Rails – September 1971

May 10, 2012

Harry S. has been a tugboat pilot, a stockbroker, and a restaurant owner in Barcelona, Spain. He was born in 1951 in Norwalk, Connecticut, and raised there until he was 15 when he and his family moved to Chicago. He is very slowly writing a book about the experiences of his salad days. I went to a small New England...