New Orleans Fifty years ago, the Class of 1966 entered Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans in the fall of 1963, not unlike tens of thousands of others entering their public high schools in cities and towns all over the United States, all of whom hoped undoubtedly they were special in some personal way, …
Category: Personal Writings
Remembering Injustice in Indian Country
Rock Creek While in the trailer last week, I had finished the recent volume by Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, then by happenstance “my friends at BCGEU” in Canada had given me a copy of the recently published The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account …
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rock Creek After days of preparation, days of celebration, solidarity, and fellowship with people hustling, cooking, eating, playing, swimming, fishing, hiking, and just kicking back and relaxing, reading, napping, and talking suddenly all of our friends and comrades and some of our family had begun the long journeys back to work and home, and there was …