I don't mean to keep hijacking the thread by talking about Hurricane Agnes, but in the interest of keeping the thread alive:
A lot of the so-called "older generation" in Wilkes-Barre in the summer of '72 were quite impressed when so many young long-haired dudes and hippie chicks, around Asharella's age, came out of the woodwork to offer their help throughout the emergency - helping with the unsuccessful attempt to sandbag the dikes; helping to collect, sort, and distribute donations of food and clothing; helping at the evacuation centers by cooking, serving food, cleaning, working at all sorts of needed jobs, even entertaining the evacuees; and doing tons of work to help clean up the mud and devastation afterward. The local newspapers carried a lot of comments along the lines of "I sure as hell don't understand the young people today, but I'll never say a bad word about them ever again." And many even kept that promise.
So, in keeping with that spirit, here's a big hit from the summer of '72 that was, as it happens, very very appropriate:
A lot of the so-called "older generation" in Wilkes-Barre in the summer of '72 were quite impressed when so many young long-haired dudes and hippie chicks, around Asharella's age, came out of the woodwork to offer their help throughout the emergency - helping with the unsuccessful attempt to sandbag the dikes; helping to collect, sort, and distribute donations of food and clothing; helping at the evacuation centers by cooking, serving food, cleaning, working at all sorts of needed jobs, even entertaining the evacuees; and doing tons of work to help clean up the mud and devastation afterward. The local newspapers carried a lot of comments along the lines of "I sure as hell don't understand the young people today, but I'll never say a bad word about them ever again." And many even kept that promise.
So, in keeping with that spirit, here's a big hit from the summer of '72 that was, as it happens, very very appropriate:
