Rock, Rebellion and Brownies - the 1960s at MSU

Thursday, November 17 – 6:30 p.m.

East Lansing Public Library – 950 Abbot Rd.

To be sung to the tune “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel:

Sigma Chi, SDS, segregation, what a mess!

John Hannah, Madam Nhu, Mary Poppins, She Loves You

Stevie Wonder, Grace Slick, McNamara, Tricky Dick   

Roger Daltry and The Who, Lennon and McCartney too

Draft dodgers, “RotCee,” Vietnam, and LSD

Goldfinger, James Bond, Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde

Gary Powers, U-2, Sergeant Pepper, Kind Of Blue

Kent State, Green Berets, Ole Miss, and JFK

Rowan, Martin, Smothers Brothers, Frank Zappa and The Mothers

Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, The Graduate, homecoming day

Woodstock, Vonnegut, downtown Lansing, “cruise the gut”

Draft status 1-A, ATL, no PDA

Bubba Smith, Notre Dame, Tiger’s pennant, Rose Bowl game

Smoking weed, women’s rights, everything will be all right

Coral Gables, Union grill, also Frandor open still

Walter Adams, Mr. Kite, Beaumont Tower, Green & White!

               

(With apologies to Billy Joel and thanks to Bob Mainfort, Mary Kwas and Bill Castanier.)

                Join the Historical Society of Greater Lansing for a look back at the tumultuous Sixties through the eyes and ears of two MSU graduates: Bob Pearson and Bill Castanier. There’s the old saw: “If you remember the ‘60s, you really weren’t there.” This presentation, taken from the pages of the State News and the airwaves of WILS Radio, will help you fill in the blanks. Castanier was a State News staffer in the 1960s and Pearson worked as a DJ at Lansing’s leading rock station WILS.