I haven’t blogged for a few days, as my wife and I were up in Maine at my XXth College reunion. There is no need to go into further numerical details here, though it is safe to say that I am, to put it kindly, on the brink of geezerdom, or perhaps, already in the abyss. Maine was truly beautiful on Friday, but was awash all day Saturday and that portion of Sunday in which we wended our way back home.
Among other things, I was not able to post a Friday night video, but I did make one musical discovery. It seems Pete Seeger made an appearance at Bowdoin in 1960. It was recorded by the college radio station, which did a top rate job, and the tapes, now lovingly restored, have been made into a two CD set by the Smithsonian. It was displayed at each cash register at both college bookstores, so naturally I bought one, and it’s really quite good. It’s fun to hear Pete singing to an appreciative Bowdoin audience, most of whom, judging by the fate of my own classmates, went on to become good Republicans. Who knows, it’s always possible that Pete made a difference in one of those young lives and turned him (there were no hers) away from a life in “finance” or one of the other criminal arts.
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