Some people claim that each generation can be defined by its music. From the jazz of the roaring twenties to the bebop of the ‘40’s , you could argue that the claim is true. But as in many things, our Baby Boomer generation isn’t so easily defined.
A recent advertisement for the Appalachian Summer Festival concert [...]
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Speaking of Music…Songs of a Generation
Never Too Old to Rock N’ Roll: Boomers Rock the Bay Area
Good news for all of us Boomers out there with musical aspirations; American Idol’s 30 year-old age limit can’t keep you from rockin’, and up-and-coming Bay area band Blame Sally is proving it. A great article at Second Act introduced me to a group of rocker women who are proving that Baby Boomers can rock [...]
From the Pages of The Baby Boomer News: Flight of Honor
{ The following is an article taken from The Baby Boomer News Magazine }
Flight of Honor
By Lou Mintzer
One hundred and eighteen very patriotic people went to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, April 10, 2010. They did not go to complain, they did not go to protest the current political situation. They went to be honored for [...]
From the Pages of Baby Boomer News: Boomer Babes at Work
by Marsha Opritza
Back in my day, you could count on one hand the number of women in my Bachelor of Business Administration classes at my alma mater, Ohio State University. We were veritable anomalies in the School of Commerce. And, boy, did we have a rough row to hoe when it came to finding a [...]
NBC Goes Strong on Baby Boomers
You may be too busy living your life to notice, but we baby boomers are becoming popular. People are noticing that we’re a generation who refuses to age the way our parents and grandparents did. In fact, we’re waging a war against using the word ‘old’ as a term to define us. And we have [...]
From the Pages of the Baby Boomer News:Revive Your ‘Inner Hippie’
The following is an article that was originally published in the pages of our magazine, The Baby Boomer News. If you’re in the Mooresville/Hickory area in North Carolina, you can get the Baby Boomer News at these locations. If you’re not, you can still ‘remember the way we were and celebrate the way we are’ [...]
Earth Day is 40 and it was OUR idea
Yesterday Earth Day turned 40. Earth Day is known for bringing attention to those things that everyone can do to ‘Go Green’ and take steps to protect our environment. And the world can thank the Baby Boomer Generation for it.
Many of us were called ‘Hippie’s ‘in our youth, and part of what identified us as [...]
The Feel Good Music
As I sit here and write this post I’m tapping my toe to The Monkees, “Last Train to Clarksville”. Before that it was Neil Diamond and “I Am.. I Said”. These are songs from my early youth that never fail to make me feel good. Songs that once upon a time I [...]
An Urge to Garden
After 46 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that the ‘gardener’ gene did not get passed down from my parents to me. My Dad grew amazing vegetable and flower gardens every summer during my youth and my Mom always has a bunch of thriving houseplants growing in her home. But me? The family joke is [...]
Do You Remember Penny Candy?
A recent blog post I read promised to ‘take me back in time’ with photos of candy from my youth. Who can resist a tagline like that, I was sucked in and went to the site to gaze at memories from my youth. Sadly, although there were a couple childhood favorites like candy cigarettes, [...]