Nature and Nostalgia
Rabbits are everywhere around my home this year. My dog tells me first by freezing in place and then by clawing at the sliding glass door. Outside, he's on the hunt, looking under bushes and around corners. This rabbit proliferation got me thinking about the last time I saw this many rabbits and of course... Continue Reading →
Have you heard of the annual Mayberry Days celebration? Since 1990, it's been North Carolina’s way of honoring their beloved native son, Andy Griffith, and the show named after him. Mayberry, the fictional town where The Andy Griffith Show (1960 to 1968) was set, was supposedly based on Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mount Airy,... Continue Reading →
After recently rewatching 1989’s Turner & Hooch, I started thinking about my favorite TV dogs from childhood … the ones I saw on TV in the '70s ... back when we had few choices of what to watch on our old black and white Zenith with the 13-channel dial. 1. Lassie — the Intelligent, Hero... Continue Reading →
Back in the decade when children’s programming was limited to whatever the TV antennae could pick up, we still had quite a few animated canine companions to entertain us. Some were crime-fighting heroes, one was a villain, a few were pets with lovable personalities and others had lives independent of people. While most shows were... Continue Reading →
Since International Cat Day is today, I was thinking about my first introduction to cats when I was a small child. We didn’t have any real cats in our home, so all I knew came from television and movies. Let’s take a look at 5 animated cats with shows airing in the 1970s. 1.... Continue Reading →
Remarkable isn’t a word I typically use to describe a person. Especially someone I didn’t personally know. But over the last 50 years, I felt like I knew Betty White. She had that way about her. Her smile and that sparkle in her eyes. It wasn’t just the sitcoms and the game shows. It was... Continue Reading →
Television was not a safe place for sensitive, young viewers in the 1970s. Even though the number of channels was limited, I remember being scared and creeped out a lot. Sometimes it was movies or movie trailers, but the most unexpected creepiness came during commercial breaks with public service announcements. It wasn’t always the video... Continue Reading →
Karen M. Free 