Archive for May, 2009
California’s Mural Towns
Amid all the diverse art and culture in California are its murals … large murals created over the last several decades, and located mostly in smaller towns. San Francisco-born art historian Kevin Bruce has traveled the state to write about its murals for a new book, “Large Art in Small Places: Discovering the California Mural [...]
Memoirs of a Boomer: The Beerwagon
If you’re a boomer, you’ve been around long enough to have done things years ago you wouldn’t do today. That’s surely true for Don Lubov, whose new book “Memoirs of a Boomer” recalls his ride in The Beerwagon. It’s 1971. I’m backpacking across the U.S. I stick out my thumb. My first red flag is [...]
About the Chesapeake and Space Shuttle
To his family and legions of friends, BoomerCafé co-founder Greg Dobbs is known – among many other wonderful things – for his letters … observations on life, his work, and his travels. In his latest email letter, Greg writes of two recent stories he has covered, as a correspondent for HDNet. May 10, 2009, from [...]
Woodstock – In The Quiet Morning
Woodstock. It’s not the only defining event of our generation, but it is one that still sticks in the minds of those who were there, and those who followed it from afar. Ian Margieson has written a novel called “Woodstock: In the Quiet Morning.” But it doesn’t start in upstate New York. Rather, it starts [...]
Give Mama a Ball of Paint
It can be hard for boomers to find life after children. Unless they have an imagination. Empty nesters Veronica and David James do, and found the right way to pass Mothers Day without the mother’s children anywhere around. What Mama found was a big Ball of Paint. It was Mother’s Day. A milestone for me. [...]
Baby Boomers Face Grief and Survive
We baby boomers might have discovered the key to living an active life … but we haven’t figured out yet the key to making it last forever. And with the generation above us getting older, and smaller, we face the inevitable challenge of dealing with death. Jane Galbraith, author of “Baby Boomers Face Grief – [...]
A Sailing Getaway
If you’re into sailing and maritime history, you’ll find this news release from the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County visitors bureau pretty exciting, and it’s just 50 miles from the nation’s capital, reports Ruth and Rich Carlson for the Examiner.com. Annapolis Maritime Museum officially reopened to the public in December 2008 following a $1.2 million [...]
First-Class and Affordable Boomer Vacation
Overseas trips are getting more expensive, and in this economy, money’s getting tighter. That’s why we like it when we hear about a first class vacation that’s just right for boomers, right here at home. Brian Meshkin found a place with a famous name that has everything we might want. With the full spectrum of [...]
First-Ever Baby Boomers Convention
By Jesse Hamlin of the San Francisco Chronicle online: Driving down to the Clarion Hotel near the San Francisco airport to attend the “first-ever Baby Boomers Convention” one night last week, I thought of hula hoops, hash pipes and who would venture out on a rainy night to attend such a shindig. Steve Markey, for [...]
Woodstock – Peace, Music & Memories
Forty years?!?!? Yes it is, forty years since the summer of Woodstock. There’s a lot we’d rather forget from that turbulent time, but for our generation, the memories cannot easily be erased. Brad Littleproud and Joanne Hague, of the Woodstock Preservation Archives, have just published “Woodstock: Peace, Music & Memories,” and it reminds us that [...]
