Remember Your East Meadow Memories!

Remember when televisions had only black-and-white programming with only a few basic channels?  When we played in Kindergarten groups segregated by  girls playing house and boys imitating  cowboys and Indians?  When we idolized teenagers because they could stay up late? 

That was then (the early 1950s) ...and this is now (2011).  But the difference for many of us today is the nostalgic yearning for earlier innocence - a magnet drawing us to our past, an obsession with our youth, the ways we were.

In mid-2010, as I turned more and more into my sixties, I also felt the need to look back and reclaim my past.  My East Meadow High School 45th Reunion was coming up and I wanted to leave Chicago, return to Long Island and try to connect my past and present with my future. 

I decided to write a book about the momentous historical and biological event that us baby boomers are finally grown up.  In fact, the first baby boomers, born in 1946, are turning 65 years young all this year.  I will have second-hand knowledge of this when I turn 65, along with 3.9 million other Americans, in 2011.

                     Once Upon Our Times           (Because Life Isn't a Fairy Tale)
                                             65 Years Growing Up Baby Boomer

That's the name of the book, to be published later this year.  Coincidentally, when I posted that I was writing a book about the historical and nostalgic years Boomers have lived through (and helped create in a big, big way), Cookie Horowitz wrote me a note on our Facebook Community Page (EMHS Class of 1965 Book).  She was a former student who I barely knew - but she offered assistance any way she could help.  Now, she's my invaluable co-author.  And very close California buddy...

That's the way us Baby Boomers make things happen. 

Now, we'd like your assistance.  Will you share your East Meadow memories with us?  Remember old hangouts, businesses, people who made a difference in your life in East Meadow?  East Meadow High School then and now?

Your warm and fuzzy memories are welcome anecdotes we will consider for the book.  We may also share your memories in future blogs here at www.eastmeadow.patch.com.

Send us your notes at emhsclassof1965@gmail.com.
Visit our book website at www.OnceUponOurTimes.com

Thanks a bunch!