General Discussion

I was in art school in NYC at the time and our building on Union Square found out on the news and all the art students were lined up at the single pay-phone in the hallway. I had just come out of the shower (with 6 roommates you need to take turns) and someone knocked on the bathroom door and told me the news since they knew I was a huge Beatles fan. Every Oct 9th and Dec 8th I remember John and play his music 24 hours. It was my own, personal JKF-like moment. I was only one when JFK was killed but I wasn18 when John was killed. I wore black for a whole month, even for Christmas.

When I taught 6th graders they all got a special music lesson on The Beatles. One of my former students still writes to me and she wrote that I taught them that my classroom would be fair and democratic with voting on all issues as a class and that The Beatles were fabulous. I take pride in that.