A Million Tomorrows
Memories of the Class of 1964
Introduction to the Book by Tommy Towery
A Million Tomorrows... is a day-to-day historical perspective look at high school and Huntsville, Alabama, during the early Sixties and a reflection on the changes in the town and the people of the South during that period, as seen through the eyes of one of those teenagers.
In 1963, I was a senior in high school and editor of my high school newspaper. On the day John F. Kennedy was shot, I started a journal detailing events from my life, my friends, my school, the city, and society in general. Even though Huntsville is the setting, many of the insights have proven to have a broader, universal appeal.
Between the death of the President and my graduation night, Huntsville schools were first integrated, George Wallace spoke at our school, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins gave concerts in Huntsville, the Beatles invaded America, Ford introduced the Mustang, we took Oral Polio Vaccine, and Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston.
On a less than national scale, we had a teacher who was rumored to be having an affair with a student, two upper-class schoolmates who stole a Cadillac and drove it to Florida where they wrecked it, and I visited Memphis and learned how to dance "The Dog."
The journal has been locked away since then. Exactly 25 years after the date it was started, I took it from it's hiding place and relived that life one day at a time, reflecting on the writings and feelings of the teenager. It is a first person, day-to-day account of the lives of the small groups in which I associated.
The story has been almost 30 years in the making. The journal was written in 1963 and 1964 and contains comments which could not be remembered today without those written words. It relates the local color of the South in the emerging Sixties as seen through the eyes of someone who was living through it.
The book is professionally bound with paperback cover and contains 276 pages.
For your own copy, the cost is $9.95 plus $1.75 shipping. Send a check for $11.70 to:
Tommy Towery
2803 West Hickory Bluff
Memphis, TN 38128
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