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Root-Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band: This Date in History

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You read “Jaws” at age 16.

Peter Benchley’s novel was pretty racy for a teenager from Deep Chatham.

The young woman having sex on the beach and then skinny dipping in the opening chapter……..

Matt Hooper (the Richard Dreyfus character) and Ellen Brody (Chief Brody’s wife, played by Lorraine Gary)…….their sex scene was kinda explicit for that era.
I read Jaws when I was a kid; probably 11-years-old. It was after the movie came out (the movie was released a couple months before I was born). It was very interesting to read the subplots that were excluded from the movie, specifically the mob control over various aspects of Amity Island and the affair between Matt Hooper and Ellen Brody. And the ending was quite different and would have seemed extremely anti-climactic on screen.
 
Buddy of mine sent me this recollection...

"My dad took us to the Bijou in Kernersville on Saturdays. We'd walk down the alley to the colored entrance, get our popcorn outside, rain or shine, then upstairs to cheer for Tarzan against the African tribesmen."
 
I read Jaws when I was a kid; probably 11-years-old. It was after the movie came out (the movie was released a couple months before I was born). It was very interesting to read the subplots that were excluded from the movie, specifically the mob control over various aspects of Amity Island and the affair between Matt Hooper and Ellen Brody. And the ending was quite different and would have seemed extremely anti-climactic on screen.
I was a toddler when the movie came out but read the book in middle school. Definitely some interesting/racy stuff that didn't make it into the movie. Agreed on the ending change as well.
 
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“Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, Make Music is celebrated on the same day in more than 2,000 cities in dozens of countries around the world.

Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto streets, parks, plazas, and porches to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public.“
 
I guess I too have been an immigrant to “The Mountains” though they’ve never really been a destination for me but rather part of “Being.” I’m a Piedmont Man, or I think of myself that way, though in North Carolina either #Boone or #Asheville have captured me significantly and when you add my great love for #Guatemala, a nation not just of Mountains but also Volcanoes, it is clear that peaks and pinnacles have figured prominently in my life.

The old mountains of Appalachia (Ap-Uh-LAT-Cha) do have a presence - a character - can I say, a personality? I’ve never been a “hiker” but because I grew up walking pastures in the flatlands a trek on foot has never put me off. I’ve sought out places to live where I could get somewhere on foot. As a boy in #Bonlee I walked to and from school most days despite the sidewalk-less roadside - one had to literally be ready to ‘jump the ditch’ in that landscape - and part of that repeated even more often was the stroll ‘downtown’ from the house to my parents hardware store.

In Chapel Hill I lived on North Campus, an easy walk to Franklin Street and then later I lived in Carrboro and walked Old Greensboro Street to get places. A little house on Plant Road led me to know the Greenway through to the Forest Theater in the early 2000s too. In Greensboro our house was a short journey through the woods and a cemetery to the Guilford College campus. And Weaverville in Buncombe County was super walkable, with homey Blue Mountain Pizza 15 minutes away through back streets.

Of course Antigua, Guatemala is a walker’s town by centuries-old design. Even now in #WestHarlem The City is a pedestrian’s paradise of sorts with bodegas, bars, and cafes right there. Riverside Park gets the dogs and I a 3-mile plus a day workout.

LMaybe I share “hiker” AND immigrant with George Masa to at least some degree. Modern Tech has even made a photographer of me too, albeit a rough one. I’d really rather think on all this ‘hiking’ about as wandering.

#OTD (June 21) in 1933 Nature Photographer #GeorgeMasa (Masahara Izuka) died. Born in Japan (1881), Masa Immigrated to #AVL in 1915. He mapped, measured, and photographed The Blue Ridge region of Western North Carolina. https://www.ncdcr.gov/.../george-masa-great-smokies... #GeorgeMasa’s work demo’ed the import & beauty of NC’s Mts. He ‘Saved the Smokies’ by capturing that beauty on film. SEE here: https://wncmagazine.com/feature/photographic_memory
 

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#OTD in 1892, John Blue started up a rail line of his own to get his timber and turpentine to market. He called it The Aberdeen and Rockfish. It is still in operation today, all 47 miles of track running between Fayetteville and Aberdeen, and still owned by the descendants of Blue. The A&R also operated the PeeDee Railway but whether it is still a going thing is unclear.

 
Not necessarily this date but since I saw it today and think it is cool:


For those of us who are not on X and, as such, can't click through, . . ., the guy in the middle is Teddy's lawyer. They are walking to court in Syracuse where a suit was in progress because Teddy had called a local political boss corrupt and the local political boss then sued for defamation. FDR was present as a witness of Teddy's good character. Teddy won the suit.
 
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There were sit-ins before #Greensboro. I remember so-called ‘legal’ segregation. I recall doors or windows on the side or backs of restaurants where people of color could order and pick-up ‘to go’ orders. I have to imagine that for those people - citizens every one - m mm forced into such ‘second-class’ situations, the memories are harsh, hard, and hurtful. This meanness was systemic and state-backed-it still bears rotten fruit across society.

Teach about it. Learn from it. Do not continue to cover it up nor permit the hidden poison to pollute. There are organized groups, among them many who are powerful on the Right, that are full-time obfuscators, engaged in a crusade to stall the growing effort to bring greater truth into our schools and society. They hatefully misrepresent this effort and hurl buzz words from their platforms and pulpits and in ways that would make Orwell proud assert that the ones who seek to include the entire narrative in our education are the ones that are dividing. Don’t let them fool you. These people are several generations deep in their campaign to sell #FakeHistory. Time to stop them.

#OTD [June 23] 1957 6 youths + Rev. Doug MJ Moore entered segregated Royal Ice Cream in #Durham on the “Whites Only” side and sat down. Arrested for trespassing, a jury found them guilty. Appeals ensued to SCOTUS, who refused to hear the case. The children led. Landmark Sit-Ins Before Woolworth’s
 
Segregation was so anti-free market.
Speaking of historical sit-ins my "radical" grandmother took me to the Greensboro Woolworth sit-in in 1960 . I had just turned 9 years old. She was such an influence in my life and I blame her for me being the dumbass,clueless,woke lib that I am today;)
 
Speaking of historical sit-ins my "radical" grandmother took me to the Greensboro Woolworth sit-in in 1960 . I had just turned 9 years old. She was such an influence in my life and I blame her for me being the dumbass,clueless,woke lib that I am today;)

Wow. Witness to History!! What do you remember?
 
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There were sit-ins before #Greensboro. I remember so-called ‘legal’ segregation. I recall doors or windows on the side or backs of restaurants where people of color could order and pick-up ‘to go’ orders. I have to imagine that for those people - citizens every one - m mm forced into such ‘second-class’ situations, the memories are harsh, hard, and hurtful. This meanness was systemic and state-backed-it still bears rotten fruit across society.

Teach about it. Learn from it. Do not continue to cover it up nor permit the hidden poison to pollute. There are organized groups, among them many who are powerful on the Right, that are full-time obfuscators, engaged in a crusade to stall the growing effort to bring greater truth into our schools and society. They hatefully misrepresent this effort and hurl buzz words from their platforms and pulpits and in ways that would make Orwell proud assert that the ones who seek to include the entire narrative in our education are the ones that are dividing. Don’t let them fool you. These people are several generations deep in their campaign to sell #FakeHistory. Time to stop them.

#OTD [June 23] 1957 6 youths + Rev. Doug MJ Moore entered segregated Royal Ice Cream in #Durham on the “Whites Only” side and sat down. Arrested for trespassing, a jury found them guilty. Appeals ensued to SCOTUS, who refused to hear the case. The children led. Landmark Sit-Ins Before Woolworth’s
Great post Don. I too remember the ‘to go’ windows at restaurants that only black people used.
 
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Photo in top left corner facing is from the sit-in at Colonial Drug. That store was situated just above The Cave and the owner (I knew his name once) would pass through the bar every day right after 5:00 pm because he would bolt the back door of his business from the inside and then lock the front with a key. Back in the 1990s I was in The Cave often...drank there, had girlfriends that tended there, and ultimately worked there myself so I saw him pass through quite a few times. He never spoke, never even acknowledged the presence of anyone in the place. Meg (The Cave owner at the time) told me that he had never spoken to her either (perhaps he had long before talked with Jim Rideout or Beau the previous owners). I guess he was the staunch segregationist from the 1960s...we always assumed that he was. He had a scowl and a limp (but he was "famous" for his orange-ades among some crowds).
 
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There were sit-ins before #Greensboro. I remember so-called ‘legal’ segregation. I recall doors or windows on the side or backs of restaurants where people of color could order and pick-up ‘to go’ orders. I have to imagine that for those people - citizens every one - m mm forced into such ‘second-class’ situations, the memories are harsh, hard, and hurtful. This meanness was systemic and state-backed-it still bears rotten fruit across society.

Teach about it. Learn from it. Do not continue to cover it up nor permit the hidden poison to pollute. There are organized groups, among them many who are powerful on the Right, that are full-time obfuscators, engaged in a crusade to stall the growing effort to bring greater truth into our schools and society. They hatefully misrepresent this effort and hurl buzz words from their platforms and pulpits and in ways that would make Orwell proud assert that the ones who seek to include the entire narrative in our education are the ones that are dividing. Don’t let them fool you. These people are several generations deep in their campaign to sell #FakeHistory. Time to stop them.

#OTD [June 23] 1957 6 youths + Rev. Doug MJ Moore entered segregated Royal Ice Cream in #Durham on the “Whites Only” side and sat down. Arrested for trespassing, a jury found them guilty. Appeals ensued to SCOTUS, who refused to hear the case. The children led. Landmark Sit-Ins Before Woolworth’s
I was not yet alive during that era, but it blows my mind that proponents of segregation tried to sell the whole “separate but equal” thing. There was absolutely nothing equal when it came to segregation, nor was there the slightest appearance of it.
 
Wow. Witness to History!! What do you remember?
Keep in mind that was 65 years ago and today I'm losing brain cells by the hour:sleep:

I remember that there was a crowd around the Greensboro 4 in support of these brave college students. It was a chaotic environment inside the store which was a bit overwhelming but not threatening. We were there early in the sit in, but I think white counter protestors showed up days later and it became more confrontational as support for the sit in grew.

For those interested in learning more about this historic event, I highly recommend the multiple award winning documentary "February One"

The producer was a fellow "member" of the "Grass Roots Impeachment Movement " ( GRIM ) that supported my Quixotic run for Congress in 2006:p
 
Great post Don. I too remember the ‘to go’ windows at restaurants that only black people used.
After the Civil Rights Act made separate seating for blacks and whites in restaurants illegal, I remember eating in a BBQ restaurant in my hometown at the counter. My cousin and I were sitting on stools at the counter. A couple of seats down was a black couple also eating at the counter. The owner of the restaurant came with a pitcher of (of course) sweetened tea to refill our glasses. When she did, she whispered to us that she couldn't leave the pitcher, surreptitiously glanced at the black couple, and added, "They know they are supposed to eat in the back." "In the back" was a separate seating area on the other side of the kitchen. After the owner walked away, my cousin, from New Jersey--just south of NYC--gave me a "You have got to be kidding me look." I whispered, "We'll talk after we leave." After we left, I explained that while I was ashamed of not getting up and walking out when the owner whispered her racist's nonsense, I further explained that the owner was one of my father's customers and while I disagreed with what she said, the passage of time would be a much more powerful agent for change than anything I could do or say in the late 1960's. Or at least that was how I rationalized my silent and impotent opposition of racism as a teen-ager.
 
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