I was in a performance of Mahler’s second symphony singing in the Harvard
Summer School Chorus with the Dartmouth Summer School Orchestra. On the bus
back to Cambridge, the moon landing was the main topic of conversation, after
an exhilarating concert. It was a magical evening.
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Around the time of the first moon landing, I was a member of the New
England Science Fiction Society. The group worked with the sf writer Hal
Clement to assemble an anthology of short stories that had been written in
the past predicting the first landing on the moon. I think it was called
"First Fl
I was in the Officers Club on Barber’s Point Naval Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii,
where my new husband was stationed. We watched the landing and moon walk in the
crowded bar on a couple of TVs—black and white, of course.
It was the peak of Viet Nam but my husband had ‘shore duty’ in Hawaii and I
Small world
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> On Jul 21, 2024, at 10:12 PM, Vicki Konstandakis
> wrote:
>
> I was 19 years old in awe with the landing on the moon only to fast forward
> on my life to work in the NASA department at Draper lab - who were
> responsible for the guidance system and to work f
I was 19 years old in awe with the landing on the moon only to fast forward on
my life to work in the NASA department at Draper lab - who were responsible for
the guidance system and to work for the engineer who trained the astronauts for
the guidance system.
My son had a show and tell in the
That evening I was with a group of friends on campus, where we worked as a
summer camp counselors with middle schoolers. We indulged in some then-illegal
substances, and gathered in front of an old b&w TV. What struck me was not the
grainy images, but the sound: I was really hearing voices from
An old friend collected these stories 25 years ago: https://wherewereyou.com/ I
think you can still add more.
Jennie
> On Jul 20, 2024, at 3:34 PM, Leslie Turek wrote:
>
> I was in a tiny apartment in Harvard Square, watching on a tiny portable
> black and white TV with my new boyfriend.
> L
I watched it on our rear screened in porch that had dark panelling, an avocado
green “indoor outdoor” rug, on a portable black and white TV that my father had
brought home from the PX in Japan on his way home from Vietnam the year before.
For our neighborhood, this room was a relatively upscale
I was in a tiny apartment in Harvard Square, watching on a tiny portable black
and white TV with my new boyfriend.
Leslie
> On Jul 20, 2024, at 2:30 PM, Sara Mattes wrote:
>
> Where were you?
> https://www.space.com/see-full-buck-moon-celebrate-apollo-55-anniversary
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> The LincolnTalk mai
