The Mountain Times  °F Wed, December 18, 2013  Central Vermont's
Most Popular Weekly Newspaper  Memory: sometimes I have one  So
have you ever heard a Boomer say, "I can't remember what I had
for lunch yesterday, but I can remember something from 30 years
ago like it was yesterday"? I say it all the time, only now I am
saying "40 years ago." Scary. Memories are usually triggered by
something, and those triggers are as much fun as the memory
itself. More often than not, the trigger is a song. Music was a
deliberate enjoyment when we were young. We had to plan it.
Listening to music meant going to the room where the phonograph,
or later the stereo, was set up. In some homes there was only
one and it was stationed in the living room. You had to jockey
for position in between the parents listening to Dean Martin or
Doris Day. We had to care for our music. Albums could scratch
easily. They required gentle handling and needed to be slid back
into the jacket after each playing. And you had to lift the arm
of the rec