1970
Well, hello 1970. What fun this one was ! I tie -dyed coffee filters with watercolor inks and rubber bands and took a trip down memory lane to the year before I graduated from college at Ohio University. Of course, Kent State was burned into my brain; that was an indelible moment in history for me. I remember a war protest at OU where things got out of hand. The governor of Ohio called in the National Guard, tear gas canisters were dispersed, and on May 15, eleven days after Kent State, the president closed the OU campus. I was walking through the College Green when tear gas filled the air. I remember my parents calling, in a panic, after hearing of the incident on the Cleveland news. There were so many things I could have included here, but I managed to show restraint. Earth Day was a positive event; if only we really lived it rather than merely celebrating it. Music, war, protests. . . . how things change and how they stay the same.