Two Plus Two...
Nov. 22nd, 2010 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowOr rather, 10+1958.
There is a passage in Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Stones in the Road" that I have loved since I first heard it:
It did not occur to me, until I was prompted by someone on the LMB list, that 10+1958 is 1968, not 1963; the lines above are about Bobby Kennedy and the (equally riot-torn) summer of 1968.
:shakes head at self:
There is a passage in Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Stones in the Road" that I have loved since I first heard it:
When I was ten my father held meI have always assumed that it was about the death of John Kennedy; 1964 was a year of nationwide rioting. Today, though, looking up Carpenter's Wikipedia article, I noticed that she was born in 1958.
On his shoulders above the crowd
To see a train all draped in mourning
Passing slowly through our town
The widow knelt with all her children
At the sacred burial ground
The TV glowed, that long hot summer,
With all the cities burning down
It did not occur to me, until I was prompted by someone on the LMB list, that 10+1958 is 1968, not 1963; the lines above are about Bobby Kennedy and the (equally riot-torn) summer of 1968.
:shakes head at self:
