We left today for Traditions Weekend, the elevated track to pitch for our money that William and Mary switches to for the 50th Reunion. We will drive down by an interesting route, going across Long Island Sound from New London CT by ferry to Orient Point, NY. We are planning to see the Custom House Maritime Museum. From There we will go to Cape May to take another ferry, to Lewes DE. We will drive down the Delmarva Peninsula to stay with friends in Cape Charles, then take the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel and on to the Burg. There is an air of adventure about it for us that is reminiscent of our arrival in August 1971.
With that in mind I have loaded in advance music from those years. Freshman year I was in JBT-43, a dormitory that had just been refitted after being purchased from Eastern State Mental Hospital. It was far off campus and freshmen were not allowed to drive cars, so we took buses which ran regularly. Why they would give freshman boys, the students most likely to screw up schedules and self-discipline, the most disruptive arrangement I don't know. Or maybe it was actually a good idea, as it forced us off campus where the upperclassmen were drinking and hanging out with girls.
This song was played nonstop in the dorm my whole first semester.
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My least favorite number by The Who... I still find it repetitively annoying. From 1971, I preferred "Behind Blue Eyes". My overall all-time favorite song by The Who is "Love, Reign O'er Me". Last week, my 18-year-old granddaughter came by to visit and we spent the time playing our favorite songs for each other... her playlists, Alexa, youtube. It was her first time hearing my favorite Who song and she really liked it (or, at least made me think so). Oddly, her group of friends is currently into "Freebird" and we had fun discussing that and Lynard Skynard in general. She'd never heard the "Ballad of Curtis Loew" before.
Did those freshman accommodations plant a career path in your brain? And I loved the entire "Who's Next" album.
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