Our time in Redmondville spanned some part of the years from 1963-1964.That was our world,and it was beginning to emerge more and more in my mind,in a way that I can remember.
There was a lot going on outside of Rural New Brunswick in 1963 too.That year saw the birth of Larry The Cable Guy,Michael Jordan,actor Quentin Tarantino and televangelist Joel Osteen.
American poet Robert Frost died,as did singer Patsy Cline and Pope John XXIII.American civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was killed,as were four little girls who were inside a Birmingham Alabama church that was bombed.An early civil rights activist,W.E.B. Dubois also died in 1963.
On January 11,the first discotheque,Whiskey-A-Go-Go,opened in Los Angeles.Alcatraz was closed in March and Simon Fraser University was founded in that month as well. In April the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup and Lester B.Pearson became the fourteenth Prime Minister Of Canada.In June,Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space,and in August Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington.Meanwhile,Governor George Wallace of Alabama was saying"Segregation today,segregation tomorrow,segregation forever." and putting his money where his mouth was by trying to stop black students from attending The University Of Alabama.Kenya received it's independence from Britain.,and the last Studebaker rolled of the lines.
A loaf of bread cost about twenty two cents,and a gallon of gas was about twenty nine cents.An average new car cost around thirty two hundred dollars,and an average house about twelve thousand,six hundred dollars.
Mr,Ed,The Andy Griffith Show,The Flintstones and The Avengers were popular television shows of the day and popular movies were To Kill A Mockingbird,Cleopatra,Lawrence of Arabia and mutiny On T.he Bounty.
In 1963,tornadoes,four hundred and sixty three of them in total killed thirty one people and caused one billion dollars damage.
The Oxford English Dictionary had four hundred and twenty new entries.They included expo,first used during the planning stages for Montreal's World Fair,deregulation,,neuroscience,spacewalk,intermodal,machine-washable,mindgame,old money, rent-a-cop and dipshit.Some of them seem to be words that aptly describe 1963,with all of George Wallace's mindgames showing him to be a complete dipshit.
Of course there was another event that took place during the later part of 1963.It was one of those events which everyone who was alive and of a certain age can remember,right down to where they were,who they were with and what they were doing when they heard the news.It was the sort of event that divided time into the time before that event,and the time after.It was an event that has never really been fully resolved in the light of history,and affects us even today.But of course,I don't remember it.My memories consisted of cool days,and chicken,pigs and crows.Wood and a narrow driveway and a barn.My mother,father and a little sister.And a big white farmhouse along the side of Highway Eleven in eastern New Brunswick.
Refrence:www.onthisday.com
www.thepeopleshistory.com
www.wikipedia.co
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