Ericast 301 - Warday's 30th Anniversary
Sometimes a book really affects you... and here's one example, with the twist of a really strange timeline. Curious? Here's your show.
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It's been awhile. And it's was quite a summer, and quite a fall. Thanks for sticking with me... Or for joining the Ericast family for the first time. Sorry I still haven't figured out my room noise. Maybe that's what kept me away from the mic. I'll try to change that.
Starting when I was 11, I spent my summers in Cornucopia, Wisconsin -- and lived up there year-round from age 16 to 18. Had I not been homeschooled, I would have turned the graduating class of the consolidated school district from 13 to 14 people. Lots of stories there.
But early on -- maybe before we even bought the house and were just passing through -- I spotted a book exchange at the tiny post office. And in that book exchange was a paperback with the gleaming foil title: WARDAY
By the time Warday had come out in 1984, I had started a club called "Kids For Peace". I knew about the issue of nuclear proliferation before Special Bulletin and The Day After and Threads. And I don't think that the following generation -- the "late Gen-X" born in the early 80s -- really understand what it was like to live under the thread of a Soviet nuclear attack.
Anyway, I had never heard of the book, but with some trepidation (simply because it was spooky) I watched Warday pass on October 28, 1988. And that, was exactly 30 years go.
If this timeline starts to sound messed up, it's because it is. And it's explained in a Warday review I found thanks to Google, from Mitch Edgeworth. He does a better job than I could, so I read it.
Thoughts? Reflections? Reach out at 701-645-3742 or any of the usual Ericast venues.
Website viewers: Click here to listen to this week's episode!
Podcast listeners: Click here for a link to the show notes page!
Everyone: Call 701-645-ERIC (701-645-3742) and comment
It's been awhile. And it's was quite a summer, and quite a fall. Thanks for sticking with me... Or for joining the Ericast family for the first time. Sorry I still haven't figured out my room noise. Maybe that's what kept me away from the mic. I'll try to change that.
Starting when I was 11, I spent my summers in Cornucopia, Wisconsin -- and lived up there year-round from age 16 to 18. Had I not been homeschooled, I would have turned the graduating class of the consolidated school district from 13 to 14 people. Lots of stories there.
But early on -- maybe before we even bought the house and were just passing through -- I spotted a book exchange at the tiny post office. And in that book exchange was a paperback with the gleaming foil title: WARDAY
By the time Warday had come out in 1984, I had started a club called "Kids For Peace". I knew about the issue of nuclear proliferation before Special Bulletin and The Day After and Threads. And I don't think that the following generation -- the "late Gen-X" born in the early 80s -- really understand what it was like to live under the thread of a Soviet nuclear attack.
Anyway, I had never heard of the book, but with some trepidation (simply because it was spooky) I watched Warday pass on October 28, 1988. And that, was exactly 30 years go.
If this timeline starts to sound messed up, it's because it is. And it's explained in a Warday review I found thanks to Google, from Mitch Edgeworth. He does a better job than I could, so I read it.
Thoughts? Reflections? Reach out at 701-645-3742 or any of the usual Ericast venues.
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