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15 Jan 23 - 12:45 PM (#4162530) Subject: They're Not Too Old to Boogie (article) From: keberoxu It's an article in the New York Times, the Sunday Style section, today, 15 January 2023. The feature article profiles a live weekly dance event in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It has been going for fifty years, since the 1970's; and it's the same group of people, who just keep getting older. Their ages range from 65 to 90 years. There are a bunch of color photographs. I can't link to the article from the computer I'm using; I saw the article because I read a paper copy today. It's worth noting that the venue has changed many times over the past 50 years. Also the scheduling has altered along with the age of the participants. Now, the event begins at 6:30 PM and ends at 9 PM, so the senior citizens can go home and go to bed. The people who work at the venue are very fond of this crowd. Only, on occasion, somebody needs to have an ambulance called. |
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15 Jan 23 - 06:22 PM (#4162596) Subject: RE: Not Too Old to Boogie (article) From: keberoxu They're Not Too Old to Boogie Hopefully the above link will work. |
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17 Jan 23 - 10:49 AM (#4162749) Subject: RE: Not Too Old to Boogie (article) From: GUEST,keberoxu This story makes me very emotional. I am on the young end of the generation profiled in this group of senior citizens who come together to dance every week. The story takes place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the counterculture had strong adherents and there was a whole group of people to support and stand by each other. I grew up within a hundred miles of this place, but it might as well have been another country, with its political orientation, its mores, its repressiveness. Had I had a chance to be one of the Ann Arbor dancers, my whole life might have been very different than it was. |