A bit of a leap and certainly outside the knowledge of most on the list, but...
I was at Stonehenge in 1983. Like Mike, I was late, arriving fresh from a hiking stint on 22nd June. Yet in another way I was early, missing the violence of Stonehenge '84 and the 'Battle of the Beanfield.' My Stonehenge experience was strange (I was only 18), a subdued (sub-dude even) introduction to Britain's underground. A policeman strolled by at one point, turned round and came over. He asked us to leave our camp as tidy as possible.
Another time a bloke 'arrived' from another place. Clearly out of his mind, he was moving his hands in front of his eyes as though he was opening and closing a curtain, all the while muttering (in a self-convincing liturgy) 'Green. Green. Green.' Pausing amongst out tents (two green and one red) he gave us a brief lecture about ley lines before moving on. Once he'd gone, we all decided to explore the stones (ie get as near as the fences would allow), so we stored all our valuables in the red tent and moved off.
Simon Who was only four in 1968, listening to Hole in my Shoe by Traffic.----- Original Message ----- From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:52 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] 1968
I was already, but just barely, in Canada when the Grant Park riots occured in Chicago. Interestingly, the man who teaches film studies here at Nipissing is also an ex-pat American who was actually in Grant Park that tumultuous spring. I was still in Chicago for the riots following the assassination of MLK. But I was already in Toronto when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The US seemed like a sinking ship at the time. We watched the news every night and worried. Probably we didn't worry enough, not recognizing the seeds of today's world. Reading back over that paragraph, I see the word ex-pat. I don't ever see myself that way. I've been Canadian over twice as long as I was ever American.Ursula, musing in the morning sunshine ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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