The Song Is Ended...

by Kenneth C. Gardner Jr.

Overview

Chris Cockburn was one of the lucky Americans who grew up in a small town in the Midwest between the end of the Korean War and the assassination of JFK, ten years filled with school, Initiation, football, Homecoming, dances, detention, basketball, tournaments, proms, yearbooks, class rings, class night, and graduation. Time marked by family, funerals, best friends, worst enemies, late nights, first dates, first loves, going steady, break-ups, and moving on. A time of hot cars, car clubs, twenty-five cent gas, radios, deejays, drive-ins, hangouts, movies, hunting, swimming, roller skating, picnics, rumbles, after-school jobs, baseball, and comic books. Small triumphs, helplessness, tragic and comic events, all combined to mold a teenagers life, a life underscored by the rhythm of rock-n-roll. A time when, as the poet said, To be young was very heaven.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462011407
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/31/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	652
File size:	905 KB

About the Author

Kenneth C. Gardner, Jr., was born in New Rockford, ND, and was raised on the drift prairies in the central part of that state. He has been a teacher for over forty years: at Kenmare (ND) High School in 1966-67 and at Drayton (ND) High School ever since. He and his wife Carol raised three childrenKathy, Kenny, and Jeffand each has gone on to a successful career. He is the author of a non-fiction book, Echoes of Distant School Bells: A History of the Drayton Public School, in two volumes.