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Today, we give little thought to polio, but it was still a significant health issue in 1964, with "Stop Polio" Sundays scheduled t...

Apparently I'm the target audience for this comic. Pulp heroes. Lovecraftean horror. Ron Marz.  Two great concepts brought together by...

Owen Blanton (well known by all Chieftains for his many years as an educator, a coach, and a guidance counselor) visited the West End PTA on...

Tonight I finished my comparative reading of the long two-volume version of Mark Lewisohn's unprecedented Beatles biography part on...

Rome began this week in 1964 with a hard freeze as temperatures hit degrees on January 13th, with snow falling across parts of Rome and Floy...

Tonight's album that I discovered almost a half-century after its first release: The Bee Gees 1st , from 1967. I picked up the CD ver...

After a lengthy Christmas break, school resumed on Monday, January 6th--a little bit later than originally planned, as it turned out! Stude...

Today I marked the official end to our holiday season by taking down the Christmas tree. Susan and I have always left the tree up through Ne...

A half-century ago, those of us old enough to remember watched the turbulent year of 1963 come to an end as 1964 began. We had high hopes fo...

Like so many of us, I remember a plethora of toys from childhood Christmases past, but my two most vivid memories are of books, and both dat...