Roll eps16 (cont.): Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa (June 1966)
In two years of living at Parsons, this was the first time I had ever seen a man and a woman together on campus. He is of course a senior, and the girl is just visiting for graduation.
This wasn't because there were no women students, you understand. But unless you were an upperclassman and had a car, there was no way you'd ever get to interact with them.
Roll eps16: Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa (May 1966)
Making music for each other was an essential way to pass the time. Several of my roommates played stringed instruments; some played more than one. I developed a lifelong love of folk and old-time music from rooming with these guys.
A student protest -- the first, I think, in the history of the college. Apparently something to do with discussion of the school's academic problems in the student newspaper.
This is what student protests looked like before administrators started to use armed force to suppress them.
No Christmas shopping in 1972 was complete without a drive two hours each way to Tower Records in L.A., so Melanie and I mounted an expedition with our friend Susy and our roommate Karen. The first stop was lunch at one of my favorite restaurants in the world, Canter's Fairfax, which happens to be in the neighborhood in which Melanie grew up.