Fooled into Thinking Dylan the Sixties and the End of the World edition by Henry Sturcke Arts Photography eBooks
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A fifteen-year-old youth struggles to make sense of a society thrown into turmoil by the assassination of JFK. As helps in finding his way, he draws on the songs of Bob Dylan and the publications of an obscure apocalyptic sect. He experiences first romance, music-making, campus revolt, and the Woodstock festival on his way. It was a time when it was easy to believe that the end of the world was near
Fooled into Thinking Dylan the Sixties and the End of the World edition by Henry Sturcke Arts Photography eBooks
I met Henry many years ago. Clean cut, educated, and one of my ministers. I talked to him little, met his family, ate over his house a few times - - - but never knew him. This book told his story and raised many feeling of growing up in the 50 and 60s. He starts at Woodstock and ends his journey there. I wanted to go to Woodstock with my long hair, beads,and jeans; however, the Vietnam conflict was hot and heavy.. to avoid the jungles, I joined the Navy. This books has an excellent mixure of colorful music, poetry, relationships, religion, and a journey beyond Woodstock. I am thankful to Wikipedia that assist me throughout the book that helped me define alot of the places and adjectives - - - don't have Wikipedia? You may want to have a dictionary at your reach. The book will leave you with many resurrected memories (quest to know God, girl / boy friends that affected your lifetime, first kisses, and smells and tastes of great food (ie., esp tomatoes and eggs with sausages😊). Thank you for taking me on a journey with you ..you were a "man I knew alittle" to "a person I know alittle bit better".Product details
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Fooled into Thinking Dylan the Sixties and the End of the World edition by Henry Sturcke Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
This thoughtful, well-written, coming-of-age memoir sheds light on the clash between the author's growing up in New England in the turbulent sixties and a growing attraction in his teenage years to the fundamentalist Pasadena, California-based Worldwide Church of God. The story opens with the author at age fifteen hearing the news at school of the John F. Kennedy assassination and ends with the author's attendance at Woodstock following his first year as a college student at Brown University in Boston, before he went to the church's Ambassador College. There is a bittersweet sense at times as the author tells the story of his relationship with a girlfriend who was Catholic and the differing religious worldviews leading to a breakup. The author was a musician who was part of a band in high school and tells of his fascination with Dylan and encounters with luminaries such as Tony Orlando and Joan Baez.
One passage had this nugget the author tells of conversations he had with the pastor of his family's Lutheran church, and then "I didn't know at the time that Pastor Dodge was from Eugene, Oregon, where Herbert Armstrong had begun his ministry, and had been a classmate of Garner Ted, Herbert's son. He shared his recollections of the under-sized boy from the wrong side of town with patched jeans and a chip on his shoulder with my aunt when she consulted him about my new enthusiasm, but I only learned this years later. Would it have made a difference to me then?"
The author's style of writing is to ask open questions like the last one above, leaving them for the reader to ponder rather than directly answering, participating in the author's development. Part nostalgia, part cultural studies of the Sixties, part a study in the appeal of a sectarian fundamentalist church to a gifted young person from a stable family and a good education ... this is just a good personal story, well told.
I enjoyed Henry’s book. I could relate to it as I was also a student at the same Ambassador College that he attended after his graduation from Boston University. His is an autobiography, similar genre to the book that I wrote in 2015. However, his growing up years in New Jersey in the shadow of Manhattan allowed him a higher cultural arc than my small town Midwestern upbringing. He also got to be an eye witness to 60s music, visit and photograph Woodstock, and buy every Bob Dylan album that came out. However, the scary end-of-the world narratives caught his attention and motivated him to seek to find his own place in what he initially thought was “God’s Work” via the Worldwide Church of God and Ambassador College. Reading the church’s Plain Truth Magazine validated his fears, and “fooled him into thinking,” its message would provide a soft landing for all the turmoil. I didn’t really know where this passion/curiosity took him after college as I have not known of him or his whereabouts for over 40 years. He was ahead of me in college and I don’t think that we ever had a conversation…I just remembered his face and name when I saw him on an Alumni website. In his book, he shares some brief insights into his early association with the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) and his interest in attending its college, but he ends the book after Woodstock and his Boston U experience and doesn’t tell us how he ends up as a minister in that fundamentalist WCG sect, exits it, and becomes a minister of the Reformed Church of Switzerland. He teases us in the book’s final words, “A child of God, walking along the road.” I am ready for the next book which he says gives us the details.
Barbara Patton Unger
Author, Gems of a Lifetime Mining Light From Every Place
I met Henry many years ago. Clean cut, educated, and one of my ministers. I talked to him little, met his family, ate over his house a few times - - - but never knew him. This book told his story and raised many feeling of growing up in the 50 and 60s. He starts at Woodstock and ends his journey there. I wanted to go to Woodstock with my long hair, beads,and jeans; however, the Vietnam conflict was hot and heavy.. to avoid the jungles, I joined the Navy. This books has an excellent mixure of colorful music, poetry, relationships, religion, and a journey beyond Woodstock. I am thankful to Wikipedia that assist me throughout the book that helped me define alot of the places and adjectives - - - don't have Wikipedia? You may want to have a dictionary at your reach. The book will leave you with many resurrected memories (quest to know God, girl / boy friends that affected your lifetime, first kisses, and smells and tastes of great food (ie., esp tomatoes and eggs with sausages😊). Thank you for taking me on a journey with you ..you were a "man I knew alittle" to "a person I know alittle bit better".
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