Anyway, enough trivia, now back to the sixties. The sixties erupted with the “Age of Aquarius,” Camelot and the Flower Child Freedom Movement, freedom of love and a freedom of self-expression in our personal appearance. The hippie movement was upon us, bell bottoms were below us and hair was everywhere on top of us. The sixties could almost be defined as the “Age of Hair.”

The “Age of Aquarius” was the birth of the silent majority, the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, I Have a Dream, Altamont, love-ins, sit-ins, love-outs, protests, the Beatles, Presidential debates, hijacking, Etch-A-Sketch, Wal-Mart and man visiting the moon.

Women wore long hair, women wore short hair and men wore long hair. If a man wore the traditional short haircut, he was pointed to as being square, it was definitely not cool.

In the sixties, we created the first oil spill, invented Black Power, survived a Soviet Missile Crisis and hundreds of our future fathers and business leaders never came home after the Tet offensive. What were we thinking?

The only thing I found to be missing from the show was any reference to Elvis Presley. Elvis, probably more than anyone else in that era, shaped the musical mores of several generations. Other than that, I thought the show was good in its presentation of the sixties. I think you too will enjoy re-living the memories of a decade that was lost to infamy, distrust and confusion. This show brings out the best in the decade and spares us the sadness and bitterness, so that joy is its number one theme. Again, I would ask, what were we thinking, or, were we thinking at all?

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