Family Reunion Ypsilanti North Dakota Continued … At some point in the week long stay in Ypsilanti at our grandparents house, we all loaded up into the family car and went to Uncle Roland and Aunt Mary’s farm for the family reunion. I remember
Author: Reneé Docktor
A writer and researcher whose blog revolves around the events and mainstream culture of the 1960s, while taking a little trip down memory lane. With a background that includes college journalism, studies in literature and humanities, as well as, a writer of human-interest stories, in small town U.S.A.
Within A Nation Torn
Part One In 1960 the United States decides to send 3,500 U.S. troops to Vietnam and in the years to follow, it became an era dominated by war. The Vietnam conflict was as a divisive of a conflict for the U.S. as was the civil war. It began
Within a Nation Torn – Part Two
Part Two – Planning Futures Another dominate factor in American culture in the Vietnam War era of the 60s was the education among young adults. A Turn-a-Key Point in American Culture 1961 began relatively quiet with the Silent Generation of young adults in college. In stark contrast, (of one generation to the next) a Gallup…
So This is Christmas
Ghosts of the past I don’t remember how old I was, but I couldn’t have been more than five. It is the first Christmas that is in my memory. We always talked of Santa and slay bells and honestly I can recall the believing