Today, is the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day and the end of World War 1. In late October, I promised to post pictures from the rare World War 1 photo album I picked up at a local flea market. Here is a picture from the first page of the album. Click here to read the […]
Rare World War 1 Photo Album and Halloween 1919
Two years or so ago, I found a World War 1 scrapbook at a flea market in Oklahoma City. I paid $50 for it, and only recently discovered that it is extremely rare. World War II albums are not entirely uncommon, but World War 1 albums of this caliber are quite an amazing find. Similar […]
Halloween 1973, Faded Photographs
The longer I blog about my generation, Generation X, the 13th generation of Americans, and the older I get, the more it feels as if I’m merely compiling a record of demographic nearly forgotten before it could be remembered. Were we – are we – truly a lost generation like the nomads who came before […]
How We Change Time
by Chloe Koffas, Light From A Pixel How We Change Time When you are a child who is only five or six years old, you excitedly and impatiently wait for the celebration of your birthday or an upcoming holiday, and the months stretch out ahead of you like years do to an adult. When I was […]
The Lost Generation of High School Athletes
In the late 1980s, the Illinois High School Sports Association created a file about the growing lack of interest in high school sports like basketball, football and baseball. Struggling to understand the empty stadiums and gymnasiums, they labeled the folder The Lost Generation. Back in 1987, Phil English was a sports reporter for the Northwest Herald. He […]
Here’s why you need to stop calling Gen Y a lost generation.
Have you noticed how popular it is to talk about lost generations? Somebody with nonprofitcolleges.com emailed me and asked if I’d share this infographic, Are Millennials (Generation Y) A Lost Generation? Source: NonProfitCollegesOnline.com After reviewing this infographic, do you really think Gen Y is a Lost Generation? I don’t think they are. Maybe they’re off […]