Hippy Dress

After getting up early the past two days all I felt like doing today was being a bum. Pathetic, I know, but I'm out of practice with that whole being a productive member of society thing.

Here is a picture of me in the retro dress I bought in London. I wore it for the 1960's event at Ancient House. It is a shame that you can't make out the two tiny braids in my hair.




















Peace out!

1960's at Ancient House

After all that research, today was the day! I talked to museum patrons about '60s protests some of the time. But I did a lot of listening. I especially enjoyed talking with the ladies who lived in Thetford during the town expansion. This is actually the reason that the '60s are significant to Thetford and it was really interesting to learn more about it.

I was quite impressed that so many of the children understood the concept of making a protest poster. Once I said "think of something you don't like and talk about how you want less of it, or think about something you do like and talk about how you want more of it," they came up with some great posters. We had protests of baked beans, tomatoes, and hunting cheetahs, and we had kids promoting recycling, rabbits, guinea pigs, and flowers.

What's with the mustache? I finally recorded "The Ballad of John's LLM."



A small piece of advice: When doing a large recording and editing project, save often. Because if imovie crashes and you haven't saved, you might want to throw Lappy out the window. And that's not really good for you. Or the laptop. Or the window.