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Blog Entries by Saki Knafo from 10/2011

Levittown: The Baby Boomer Story As Told By The Children Of America's First Suburb

Publication 10.02.2011
Suivre: Suburbs, Long Island, Levittown History, Levittown, Baby Boomers, The 70s, Suburbia, The 60s, Suburb History, Vietnam War, Corrections, Steve Bergsman, Baby Boom Generation, Eddie Money, Vietnam, New York, L'actualité

In 1946, a developer named William Levitt began buying up land from potato farmers in the Long Island town of Hempstead, N.Y., and within a few years ...

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Steve Bergsman's 'Growing Up Levittown': 'The Brawl,' An Excerpt

Publication 10.02.2011
Suivre: Steve Bergsman, Baby Boomer Generation, Steve Bergsman Growing Up Levittown, Levittown, Baby Boomers, Growing Up Levittown, New York, L'actualité

In 1967, there were four high schools in Levittown, each catering to a specific geographic area of the township. Since we were all rivals to each othe...

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Eddie Money's Baby Boomer Playlist

Publication 10.02.2011
Suivre: Baby Boomers, Levittown, Suburbia, Eddie Money Levittown, Eddie Money, Baby Boomer Generation, Baby Boom, Eddie Money Baby Boomers, New York, L'actualité

For our series on the Baby Boomer generation and Levittown, N.Y., we asked Eddie Money, who grew up in the town playing school dances and went on to r...

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Steve Bergsman's 'Growing Up Levittown': 'The Hop,' An Excerpt

Publication 10.02.2011
Suivre: Steve Bergsman, Baby Boomer Generation, Baby Boomers, Levittown, Steve Bergsman Growing Up Levittown, Growing Up Levittown, New York, L'actualité

My only non-academic objective when I entered seventh grade was to overcome my shyness. I had emerged from elementary school bursting with a need to s...

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Bolstered By Occupy Wall Street, The 'Millionaires March' Tours Manhattan

Publication 10.11.2011
Suivre: JP Morgan Chase, News Corp, David Koch, Upper East Side, Corrections, Millionaires' Tax, Jamie Dimon, New York City, John Paulson, Occupy Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Kink, Doug Forman, Protests, Howard Milstein, Millionaires March, Tax Breaks for the Rich, L'actualité

In an effort to draw attention to economic policies that favor the rich, a few hundred protesters took a tour of the luxury apartment buildings and to...

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Steve Bergsman's 'Growing Up Levittown': 'The Kiss,' An Excerpt

Publication 10.12.2011
Suivre: Baby Boomer, Steve Bergsman, The Kiss, Baby Boomers, Levittown, '70s, Growing Up Levittown, '60s, L'actualité

The following is an excerpt from Steve Bergsman's memoir Growing Up Levittown: In my first two years at the University of Florida, I never fell in ...

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Levittown: The Baby Boomer Story, Part 2

Publication 10.13.2011
Suivre: Baby Boomers, Demonstrations, Levittown, The '70s, Anti-War Movement, Revolution, Berkeley, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Steve Bergsman, Vietnam, Summer of Love, The '60s, L'actualité

Last Wednesday, as thousands of protesters gathered in financial districts around the country shouting slogans like "Get money out of politics" and "T...

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Clean Zuccotti Park In Preparation For Evacuation

Publication 10.13.2011
Suivre: Occupy-Wall-Street, Cipriani, Nypd, Wall Street, Ray Kelly, Mayor Bloomberg, Zuccotti Park Cleanup, Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Occupy Wall St, Zuccotti Park, Occupy, Unions, Occupy Movement, Sanitation, L'actualité

On Thursday evening, a couple dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park grabbed brooms and buckets and set about sweeping up the site. For ...

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Hold On To Zuccotti Park For Another Day

Publication 10.14.2011
Suivre: Bloomberg, Brookfield, Video, Nypd, Ray Kelly, Mayor Bloomberg, Wall Street, Police, Zuccotti Park Cleanup, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Zuccotti Park, New York City, L'actualité

NEW YORK -- The announcement came in the middle of a General Assembly meeting early Friday morning at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park,...

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Occupy Wall Street And Anonymous: Turning A Fledgling Movement Into A Meme

Publication 10.20.2011
Suivre: Cornel West, Anonymous Ows, 4chan, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Hacktivists, Anonops, Wall Street, Anonymous Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Gregg Housh, #Occupywallstreet, New York Stock Exchange, Hackers, L'actualité

Two weeks ago, Cornel West, Princeton professor and activist, showed up at a tent city erected by Occupy Wall Street protesters across the street from...

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Occupy Wall Street: Dogs Of The Protest (PHOTOS)

Publication 10.21.2011
Suivre: Wall Street, #Occupywallst, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Cute Dogs, Puppies, Occupy Wall Street Dogs, Zuccotti Park, Dogs, Dogs Occupy Wall Street, L'actualité

Jordan McCarthy, 22, has been living in Zuccotti Park since the beginning of Occupy Wall Street. And because Jordan's been living there, so has Calvin...

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Steve Bergsman's 'Growing Up Levittown': 'Spaghetti And Jam,' An Excerpt

Publication 10.22.2011
Suivre: Steve Bergsman, Baby Boomers, Levittown, Growing Up Levittown, L'actualité

(An excerpt from Growing Up Levittown by Steve Bergsman) A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances o...

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Levittown: The Baby Boomer Story, Part 3

Publication 10.25.2011
Suivre: Baby Boomer, Long Island, Levittown, Baby Boomers, Middle Age, Growing Up Levittown, William Levitt, Steve Bergsmen, Aging Baby Boomers, L'actualité

Over the few weeks, for a three-part series on the history of the baby boomer generation, The Huffington Post interviewed four men and women in their ...

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