Tag Archives: Woodstock

Summer of Love

Posted on June 13, 2015 by vanbytheriver

Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Two hundred thousand showed up for Woodstock. It was 1969. And I was making hand grenade fuses in a small factory in rural Pennsylvania. In spite of cutback promises by President Nixon, the conflict … Continue reading →

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Melanie

Posted on December 12, 2014 by vanbytheriver

A favorite song, with an even better lyric. Written in 1970, it was about Woodstock. We were so close, there was no room We bled inside each others wounds We all had caught the same disease And we all sang … Continue reading →

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