sixty years on
August 16, 1965: I was with my family, who were staying in a cottage at Crystal Beach (a small community on the Saint John River not too far from the city). Summer vacation! Should have been a carefree time, right? Well, on that day, I went into the beachfront 'canteen', as it was known, and saw a headline in the Evening Times-Globe, a local Saint John newspaper on sale there. It read, "L.A. RIOTS STILL SPREADING".
News of the Watts riots genuinely scared me as a kid. I thought, 'what's to prevent the chaos from spreading across the continent?' How was I to know? Adding to the general atmosphere of anxiety was a new song on the radio called "Eve of Destruction" . . .
Skill-testing question: In 2025, I'm six times the age I was in 1965. What is my current age? (If you can do this little calculation quickly, congratulations. Arithmetic is not a dead subject! Yet.)
sixty years on
August 16, 1965: I was with my family, who were staying in a cottage at Crystal Beach (a small community on the Saint John River not too far from the city). Summer vacation! Should have been a carefree time, right? Well, on that day, I went into the beachfront 'canteen', as it was known, and saw a headline in the Evening Times-Globe, a local Saint John newspaper on sale there. It read, "L.A. RIOTS STILL SPREADING".
News of the Watts riots genuinely scared me as a kid. I thought, 'what's to prevent the chaos from spreading across the continent?' How was I to know? Adding to the general atmosphere of anxiety was a new song on the radio called "Eve of Destruction" . . .
Skill-testing question: In 2025, I'm six times the age I was in 1965. What is my current age? (If you can do this little calculation quickly, congratulations. Arithmetic is not a dead subject! Yet.)