New York Times, 17 September 1964

Pop-pop reported going to a church in Wantagh to hear “Lomax” speak.

My best guess is that it was Louis Lomax. Check his wikipedia entry. He seems like an interesting guy.

While visiting my dad in Florida, he showed me his father’s “yearbook.” A diary of sorts. I’d seen it before.

Dad mentioned it wasn’t particularly revealing, saying, “An entry might be, “Played golf. Claire, Dolores and the kids came over.  Had a nice time.”” We chuckled.

I asked if I could take the book home, with no intention other than reading it.

Well, then, I thought of this – putting the contents on gushoppe.com

The book has entries for both 1964 and 1965. Here’s the 1 January page so you can see how Pop-Pop did it. I’ll be posting it in chronological order over the next two years. Hopefully, I’ll be able to include some other media from the time, too: photos, digitized home movies, who knows?

I’m going to transcribe the entries using Gus’ lines, which will make  it something more verse-like, as well as using the first few words as each entry’s title.

I hope you enjoy it. 1964, Freeport, New York here we come!

– Rand