Younger Than That Now a Shared Passage from the Sixties
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Publish date: 05/01/2001
Description:
It was early 1969. Richard Nixon had just assumed the presidency and Jimi Hendrix was playing on transistor radios everywhere. Woodstock and mankind's first walk on the moon were only months away. The nation's longest war had been a grim reality for over five years. And Jeff Durstewitz of Long Island, New York, and Ruth Williams of Yazoo City, Mississippi, were both editors of their high school newspapers.
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It began when Jeff and his fellow newspaper staffers wrote, on a lark, an obnoxious note to Ruth attacking her and the nightriding South; her electrifying reply began a flurry of letters. Within a month, Jeff launched a Yankee invasion into the heart of Dixie. Neither irate parents nor the glint of a Mississippi deputy's pistol in the dead of night would keep them from meeting.
That visit was the beginning of a friendship that, despite time's passing and the great gulf of distance, would sustain them both through love affairs, heartbreaks, regrets, social change, divorce, and the loss of a cherished friend.
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