summer of ‘77

1977 New York City Blackout

I’m currently reading Bill Bryson’s “One Summer,” which details all the amazing things that happened in America in the summer of 1927. It seems like an awful lot was packed into that one summer and it reminded me of my own jam-packed summer in 1977.

Of all the years of my life ,1977 is the year I could tell you the most about. It was a time so packed with intensity and emotion and drama — I don’t recall any other year of my life being…