Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for October 18, 2020

Of course he’s too young to have learned anything about the past that’s now part of history.

I guess he’s not into hockey or he would have understood the reference, even without understanding the historical aspect.

I lived through that time period, but I’m 99% certain I never saw the movie.

HE’S ONLY 8, FOR GAWD’S SAKE. . .How many of you, when you were 8, knew about The Boys in the Boat?

How is it that I know about people and events that happened thousands of years in the past and a high-schooler can’t tell me who was POTUS in 1998?

“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”

― Edmund Burke

“History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It’s not the unknown past we’re doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.”

― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

When I realized that the reason I had to teach second graders about President Obama was because they were too young to remember him as President and didn’t even recognize him from a picture… :(

Don’t worry about getting old Grandma, I have an autographed copy of the Bible on my coffee table. I’s inscribed from J.C. and the boys.

It’s also a song by Hot Chocolate, but I don’t either of them know that.

Bit jarring in grad school, 1987, to hear an undergrad telling of going to see Deep Throat because she’d been studying Watergate in history class. The most notorious movie and event of my junior high years.

just have him google it!

I remember watching that!