Baby Boomers Archives - Hal Phillips

Awfully Fond & Proud: Sesame Street’s Founding Generation

Hal Phillips — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:17:21 +0000

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (Feb. 22, 2018) — I have the distinct memory, among my very earliest, of my mother describing a new television show about to debut on Public Television. “It’s for kids exactly your age,” she told me, and so it was. Sesame Street first aired in late 1969, when I was 5. In […]

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America’s Silent Generation: Strauss, Howe, Draper, Pirsig & My Dad

Hal Phillips — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:24:23 +0000

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (Aug. 9, 2017) — I try to write about my Silent Generation dad each August because, at the close of that month, six years ago, he left this mortal coil. All too soon. For most of his 74 years, my dad recognized himself as a Tweener, someone who didn’t belong to a […]

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