Category: Memoir Publisher: World Audience Publishers
ISBN-10: 098205405X
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 310
Copyright: August 27, 2008
ISBN-13: 9780982054055
My memoir illuminates a generation -- including my own intellectual, physical, moral, romantic, and spiritual development -- while bringing a tumultuous era back to life.
Waking Up in the Studebaker is the memoir of Kevin Gray, who proudly came of age in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. Kevin captures an era starting with his earliest memories in the 1950s. He covers a lot of ground, including impressions about racism in the former Capital of the Confederacy. Teen music and teen rites from the late 1950s drew him in by age 10. He offers personal insights on Vietnam, music, and the drug culture, and the turbulent times right into 1968.
Gray admits, "I thought America the greatest place on the face of this earth to grow up in, but, then, I realized my color (white), my religion (Methodist) and my parents' middle-class income helped. Then, I wasn't so sure." As he opened his eyes to poverty and the plight of many Americans, this added to his confusion, especially after having witnessed two cross burnings in North Carolina held along a public highway when returning from football games at Duke University.
Asthma and an extreme shyness when indoors, affected him, but an overriding act-first-think-later attitude drove the boy.
The 1960s really weren't what they were cracked up to be in the media, that is for a kid stuck far from any
happening places."
"At least he had the music!" he said. And, yet, in so many ways, events in both the 1950s and 1960s reached out and made an impact on people nationwide, even to a young boy growing up in Richmond.
Waking Up in the Studebaker is Gray's very personal story set during changing times and should shed more light on everyday life, while the world was spinning around and all kinds of hell was starting to break loose
"This is my story," Kevin said, "and, more than anything, I didn't want help in whatever I did. I had to live my life my way, even if it gave me many bruises along the way."
Excerpt
Had our reckless actions then and in years to come been the effects of our fear of the draft? I read the papers and continuously watched the televised war. Mom, Dad, and I always got into arguments about how I felt we should get out of there. It that war had been going strong on my fourteenth birthday, evidently it would continue on my eighteenth.
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Tom used to run his orange Goat up on two wheels, like James Bond, on the nearby Glendale curves. When he would slam his Hawaii 5-0 theme song in his eight-track, Ron and I hit the floor.
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