What Are We Looking For?

A short memory (20-300 words) concerning something you find important in some way and think others might –see examples below from attending a rock concert to participating in a demonstration - we are interested in your perspective on life as you recall it then.

Why Participate?

Whether or not you might be considering writing your memoirs, it is important to feel that your memories of events are not going to go to disappear - that they will build towards the collective history of a generation - our generation. We are all part of this history as all of us have been influenced and shaped in some way by the cultural and political events we have lived through.

By writing and sharing your distinctive memory, you can strengthen the ties that bind us together and help create a new kind of historical record - one that starts and finishes with the experiences and voices of those who were there. By contributing to the wiki you do not give up any rights to your work. A short-hand way of seeing the project is as a wikihistory by boomers for boomers.

How You Can Participate

First log in as a member --Each contribution should have a short title that tells the reader the time (Month Year and if possible day) as well as location (city, state and country) and the main subject, together with any brief biographical details you care to share. If there are photographs available or other visual multimedia material please either include or indicate where we might be able to go to see them .
In this way, the project will build to form an richly informative map of a decade well all shared that we may want to use for research and or /later publication. You can indicate if you wish for the memory to remain anonymous.

If you have questions please Email bboomreview@gmail.com

Some Examples

Visiting a Dylan Concert in Manchester 1966-a contribution from a BBC website

"I was a student at Salford Uni in 1966 and went to the Free Trade Hall concert with several friends. I was sitting high up in the Balcony well behind the guy who shouted Judas. My memory is that he either was sitting at the front of the Balcony, or went there to shout and then walked out - but it is a long time ago. The acoustic half was amazing, the atmosphere seemed electric!! I particularly remember the fantastic harmonica bits. The electric half seemed to me to be just a mush of very loud sound with vocals you could not hear. I only realised when we were leaving, and talking about what we had heard, that Bob had played "One too many Mornings" in the second half, I really had not recognised it or heard any of the words. I wouldn't have missed the first half for anything, but my lasting impression is that very few people there enjoyed the second half." Peter Wood

Or this memory of the Berkeley Free Speech movement

The event that converted protest into rebellion occurred on October 1 (1964). As students arrived for classes that morning they were greeted by handbills declaring that if they allowed the administration to "pick us off one by one. . . , we have lost the fight for free speech at the University of California." Soon after, CORE, SNCC, the Du Bois Club, Students for a Democrat Society (SDS), and six or seven other groups set up solicitation tables in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building. At 11:00 A.M. the assistant dean of students went up to the CORE table and asked Jack Weinberg to identify himself. Weinberg refused, and the dean ordered campus police to arrest him. A veteran of the civil rights movement, Weinberg went limp in standard civil disobedience mode when the guards carried him to a waiting car. Bystanders and observers quickly came to his rescue. In minutes hundreds of protesters, singing the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome," and chanting, "Let him go! Let him go!" surrounded the car, preventing it from leaving to cart Weinberg off to security headquarters.
(from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1963-64:a narrative summary by David Burner )