On a wicked cold December night a man lectured from the stage of the First Congregational Church in downtown Portland. James Swanson spoke to a full house, breaking down the Kennedy assassination moment by moment from his book ‘END OF DAYS, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.’ Swanson followed the characters and events from fifty […]
The Car, The War
October 23, 2013 by
What’s the difference between a mobile society and a mobile war? You find out when the warriors hang up their guns. It’s how they drive down their familiar town road after trailing an IED blast in Iraq. Drive faster? Slower? Don’t drive?
In The (Baby Boomer) Beginning – 1946
September 11, 2013 by
Highlights From The First Year. The earliest Boomers came in a ground breaking year. It wasn’t their world yet, but the adults had it set up for them. An overview of 1946 shows how the times changed, and how they stayed the same. Read on:
Baby Boomer Music Died In 1973?
July 31, 2013 by
Did it die of natural causes? A new book explains how it happened. It wasn’t the plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in Iowa. Lynyrd Skynyrd members also crashed without killing music. It wasn’t Bob Dylan plugging a Fender Strat in at the Newport Jazz Festival. Bruce Springsteen didn’t kill anything when […]
