Okay, this post is nothing more than a bold and unabashed commercial for one of my volunteer activities, the John Heinz History Center. A new temporary exhibit will be opening this weekend and will run through Mother's Day. The exhibit is called "1968: The Year That Rocked America". I had a chance to take a preview tour today, and it is a fantastic exhibit, one of the best I've seen since in the three plus years I have been at the History Center. !968 was the year of my junior and senior years in high school, and so many of the events chronicled in this exhibit are vivid in my mind and important in my own personal history and memories.
Here are just a few of the people and events that are touched upon in this exhibit:
TET...Martin Luther King....Janis Joplin....Laugh-In....Viet Nam....My Lai....Eugene McCarthy.....Robert Kennedy....The White Album....Chicago Democratic Convention.....Richard Nixon....Apollo 8.
Trust me, I'm not even scratching the surface of all that is in this exhibit.
If you were alive in 1968 and can recall these events, you need to see this exhibit, and even if you were not and 1968 seems like ancient history to you, maybe especially if it seems like ancient history to you, you should really make it a point to visit this exhibit.
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