Short story humor from the author's adventures at Mary Jane Kennedy Elementary School in the Chicago suburb of Westchester, IL. Relive the 1960's with friends and foes which culminate in a 1969 grand finale graduation. 1969...what a year this was going to be The Apollo 11 mission was going to land the first man on the moon; Boeing's 747 jumbo jet would make its debut; the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, which would define the American muscle car, was going to be introduced; some 500,000 rock-n-roll fans would attend Woodstock to hear the likes of Janis Joplin, Santana, The Grateful Dead, Credence Clearwater, The Who, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash; the Beatles would have their last public performance on the roof of Apple Records; Chappaquiddick and Ted Kennedy would become infamous; PBS would be established; Charles Manson's cult of lunatics would murder five people; Richard Nixon would become president; the Chicago Cubs appear to be headed to the World Series. And most important of all: We were in eighth grade and going to Washington D.C.
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