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Technology Dominates Modern Life and Takes Over What Once Was Child’s Play
#boardgames #radio #midwest #cowboymovies One of the joys in living in the mountains during the summer is that we escape from a lot of the technology that dominates our lives. Mobile phones often do not work. Radio reception is unpredictable. We do not need air conditioning. We sleep with the windows open and snuggle under…
Read MoreSenators Favor NRA Approval Over the Chance at Saving A Child’s Life
#guncontrol @gunregulation #nra Here, never to be forgotten, is the list of the Senators who preferred to keep favor with the NRA rather than take one small step to protect our children. Listed below are the Senators who voted against extending background checks to include gun shows and other improvised markets. 1. Sen. Lamar Alexander…
Read MoreDetroit Riots in 1967 About Civil Rights Changed Lives, Perhaps the City Itself.
#detroitriots #civilrights #raceriots This is the final installment of a series that I have offered on my family’s experience living in Detroit during the mid-1960’s, a period of violent social unrest and the battle over Civil Rights. Readers are urged to read the previous post(s) before wading into this one. By Thursday, July 27, 1967,…
Read MoreCivil Rights Riots in Detroit Wongly Blamed on Failure to of President Johnson’s Great Society to Deliver
#detroitriots #civilrights #riots This is the fourth installment on a series that I have offered on my family’s experience living in Detroit during the mid-1960’s, a period of violent social unrest and the battle over Civil Rights. Readers are urged to read the previous post(s) before wading into this one. I did not feel that…
Read MoreBattle for Civil Rights Erupts into Riot July 1967 in Detroit
#detroitriots #detroit #civilrights #riots This is a third installment on a series that I have offered on my family’s experience living in Detroit during the mid-1960’s, a period of violent social unrest and the battle over Civil Rights. Readers are urged to read the previous post(s) before wading into this one. My wife and I…
Read MoreCivil Rights Leaders Dubbed Detroit a Model City in the 1960’s. Riots Changed the Face of the City..
#dettoit #detroitriots #civilrights #riots This is the second article in a series that began with my previous post about moving my family to Detroit in 1966. I concluded that piece with the statement “Nothing in our Midwestern upbringing prepared us (my wife and me) for the changes, the violence, the hatred, and the heroics that…
Read MoreAtheist Libertarian Golf Addict Befriends Liberal Agnostic — Part II
#atheist #agnostic #libertarian #liberal #golf #gold This is the second and final part to a article posted earlier entitled “Atheist Libertarian Golf Addict Befriends Agnostic Liberal on Golf Course.’’ Readers who have not read the previous post, are urged to do so before tackling the conclusion presented here. Harry was troubled that our society was…
Read MoreDetroit, 1966, Testing Ground for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
#detroit #detroitriots #civilrightsact #riots Detroit was just another city, as far as I knew. Then my boss at the Minneapolis office of The Travelers called me one morning in the fall of 1965 to tell me that I was being transferred to the Motor City. I ran the two blocks from the bus stop on…
Read MoreAdoption Papers were Ready for Signature. My Son Needed to be Baptized First.
The following is an installment in a series of posts dealing with the options available to the underage parents of a child born out of wedlock during the 1950’s, before the advent of outpatient abortions, the pill, and a dramatic change in the public view with regard to sex prior to marriage. My son was…
Read MoreAdoption Was an Unwed Teenage Mother’s Option Before Out Patient Abortion Became Available
#adoption #1950s #teenagepregnancy Adoption was a commonplace practice in the 1940’s and ‘50’s before the introduction of the pill and outpatient abortion service. The children who lived next door to my family when I was a boy were adopted, all four of them. Kids in the neighborhood thought nothing of it. If questioned, parents responded…
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