Live performance of traditional and personal stories
A 400+ year old story
The Kent State shootings, May 4th, 1970, led to protests and a national student strike, causing hundreds of campuses to close because of both violent and non-violent demonstrations. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks. Five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., against the war and protesting the killing of unarmed students on a college campus.
My father was a lace curtain-Irish-Edwardian-self taught orphan who ran away to join the cavalry in 1921 - by lying about his age. He was just 17. I told this into my cell phone while running errands on SAT. Chopped it to under 6 minutes. So it is rough.