THE WILD SUMMER OF 1972

Excerpted from the book, Essays of a Moonshiner's Daughter

​"While the rest of the nation was caught up with Watergate and trying to find out who “Deep Throat” was; Angela Davis’ trial, Jane Fonda’s tours of Vietnam, and Nixon signing Title IX ending gender discrimination in education funding by the federal government; I was a girl just trying to have fun. My days were spent in the Music Library at Wayne State University. My gay supervisor was busy trying to educate me about classical music and I in turn was educating him about Jazz and Roberta Flack. There was another student who came to the library too many times because he had a crush of me. I should have accepted his invitation to join him and his family on their weekly bowling night, but I did not like bowling and I was not mature enough to want to fuel a relationship with a genuinely nice young man who happened to use a wheelchair. Instead, I was interested in the “bad boy” and having and attending parties. The summer would not disappoint."