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2nd Grade: An Assassination and Annette Funicello
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2nd Grade: An Assassination and Annette Funicello http://goo.gl/fb/e2GUj #kim #memoirs #annettefunicello
2nd grade fascinations — oh, yes. My primary one, at seven, was a truck driver who drove around with a chimpanzee strapped in the front seat of his big rig. I mentioned this years later, and someone asked, “Clint Eastwood, right?” Oh, no! Their chimpanzee-toting truck driver might have been Clint Eastwood — I gather the ‘trucker with chimpanzee’ concept was popular for a while — but mine was Greg Evegan.
Good ol’ BJ and the Bear
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2nd Grade: An Assassination and Annette Funicello http://goo.gl/fb/e2GUj #kim #memoirs #annettefunicello
Aww. That teacher should have humored you, Annette.
…I should have a memory of the assassination, but I do not.
I’m sure this comment will be one of those long winded readings that will leave you scratching your head, but here goes….
I have been blocked; probably more to do with work than anything else, but blocked none the less. I went rooting around for a favorite writing book, Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down. I had just finished reading about how creativity is stifled in school…we are taught that art is a novelty.
That’s what your 2nd grade teacher taught me, and I wasn’t even in her class. I realize that teachers are a small voice compared to the syllabus, but she blew her chance…
I remember Annette and the Assassination. Now that I reflect about the symbolism of Annette leaving the Mousketeers to make the Beach Blanket series, I see a little more innocence being drained at that time, and the Assassination zapped that pure image even harder.
Not scratching my head at all, Alex. I know exactly what you’re sayin’!
Kim, this was so beautifully written! Reading your memories certainly evoked my own memories of those two people.
I can still hear the crackle of static on the loudspeaker in Mr. Mahaffey’s 5th grade classroom as the Principal interrupted our lesson to announce in a broken voice that our President had just been shot in Dallas. I began to look at life much differently after that day.
Oddly the two females that I looked up to the most at that time were Annette and Jackie Kennedy. Annette for her sweet innocence and Jackie for her grace, style, and strength.
Revisited: 2nd Grade: An Assassination and Annette Funicello – Memories of elementary school are scarce indeed,… http://is.gd/gdFRB #ewn