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Sitting on the Front Porch Along the Stoney Fork Creek
Funny Pages
Bill Waters' son, Calvin, is in from college for fall break.
He stopped by to speak and to see if I might have some old newspapers stuck away someplace.
He is working on some kind of popular culture degree, and he wanted to find a couple of pages of comics from sometime before he was born.
I had some things up in the attic that seemed to make him happy -- Lil' Abner, Pogo, Gasoline Alley, Prince Valiant, Dick Tracy.
Calvin wants to see what kind of parallels he can draw between what was on the funny pages and what was on the front pages.
It's an interesting question, I think.
I know some people get a little nostalgic for old comics.
They miss what they remember, but they aren't thinking about what would happen.
A possum in an office cubicle.
A hillbilly in the suburbs.
It's like those artists' renderings of seventy-year-old Marilyn Monroe and JFK.
Nostalgia isn't depressing.
Trying to recreate the past -- or invent the present to imitate the past -- is.
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Here's to a beautiful, peaceful time in your life.
Linda
