Charles Paige:
CLASS OF 1968
Jackson High SchoolClass of 1968
Jackson, MI
Charles's Story
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From my online book A Petty Officer and a Swabbie:
I was in my mid-teens in Michigan when I first heard and saw reports about Haight-Ashbury and of the "hippie" movement then in full swing, or should I say full flower. The "summer of love" media coverage fascinated me. It was a special time, when the hippies came together in San Francisco to show that people could be happy together with love, in harmony and without strife. That was 1966. The following year a girl by the name of Susan appeared in my high school homeroom and sat next to me. She was the image of an authentic flower child, with a flower in her hair, a flowered muumuu, sandals on her fee...Expand for more
t, and wide, laughing eyes. Her family had moved to Jackson from the San Francisco Bay area. Once, when I visited her home, Susan played an English recorder. It was from her that I first picked up the interest in playing that particular type of musical instrument.
Compared to the girls I had known, Susan was a more brilliant star. She was always unusual, with different responses, interests and sense of humor. She was bemused by us bumpkins, and I am afraid none of us measured up to the people she was accustomed to being around. Yet for the year she remained in Jackson we had fun together. Then she and her family disappeared as suddenly as they had appeared.
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