I’m in my mid-forties now, and the truth is, I’m middle-aged. That means I have experienced and remember events from forty years ago.
Probably my earliest memory of a historical event was from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. I was a six-year-old 1st grader at Watkins Mill Elementary School in Montgomery Village, Maryland. The space shuttle launch was in the late morning, and I can’t remember if we were watching it live on TV at school, or if someone turned on the TV after the shuttle had exploded, but I remember the TV being on in the classroom and teachers were pacing around visibly upset.
It’s events like these that I’d like to write about and share, both to preserve my own memories and also to give first-hand accounts of historical events.
I also have various old items sitting around in my house. These are things like home video camcorders, office supplies my dad used in the 1960s, obsolete computer media, 30-year-old computer games, etc. I’d also like to do some show-and-tell of old objects around the house, that younger people today may not be able to identify.
I think this kind of a resource may be useful for writers and storytellers who are attempting to tell a realistic story set in the 1980s, 1990s, or 2000s America (I also have a few stories of Taipei in the 1980s and 2000s).
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