- July 30, 2005
Moving On
A new version of the class News & Views page is running in another location.
Please update your bookmarks. This location will close down in late August.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0130031/2005/07/30.html#a134
- July 28, 2005
New Lincoln Museum in Springfield
The presidential museum has drawn lots of national attention, and one of the better articles appeared early in July in the Washington Post. The exhibits try to bring antebellum days to life, mostly with special-effects.
Still to come is a presidential library, which will be one of the
nation's great centers for research on the nineteenth-century Midwest.
The areas around the Old State Capitol and the Lincoln Home recreate
that era, as does the Elijah Iles...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0130031/2005/07/28.html#a133
- July 28, 2005
The American Fifties
If you'd like to understand better the era in which we grew up, I have
two recommendations: a fabulous book by David Halberstam, The Fifties (1994), also available on tape, and a course at Penn called "The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s." There's a more commercial site of nostalgia and trivia, Fifties Web, which is fun to surf as well.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0130031/2005/07/28.html#a132
- July 28, 2005
The Wages of Entitlement
Donald Murray, a columnist for The Boston Globe, recently wrote some sentiments that many of us may feel as we approach the age of retirement and Social Security:
"As children of the Great Depression, we didn't feel entitled to a
home, an auto, icebox, wringer, radio, four-party phone, electric fan.
I can't remember any sense of entitlement. If you wanted a bike or a
hot-water heater for the bathtub, you could have it -- if you worked
for it.
"My grandchildren can't..
http://radio.weblogs.com/0130031/2005/07/28.html#a131
- July 9, 2005
Address Changes
New addresses appear in the Directory on the '58 Web site for:
Bob Fitzsimmons
Ruth Lance Gore
Bill Ice
Laurel Loibl McKee
Judy Vicars Van Hagen
http://radio.weblogs.com/0130031/2005/07/09.html#a130
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