As we wrap up our reflection of the past 40 years, we look at 2012 through 2015, the most recent four-year period in our memory. It’s safe to say that the Earth uttered a sigh of relief that the world did not come to an end when the Mayan calendar stopped in 2012. Although devastation […]
Continue ReadingYouthZone: 1988 – 1995
As the 1980s transitioned into the early 1990s, we saw the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold war, only to soon find our nation entrenched in a war in the Gulf after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. At home, teens in the United Sates followed the lives […]
Continue ReadingYouthZone: 1980-1987
Who can forget what a fabulous decade the 80s were? Kevin Bacon was teaching us all to be footloose, Aqua Net allowed us to pump up the volume on our bangs, Mary Lou Retton was stealing our hearts at the Olympics, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller album was turning out hits one after the other. And […]
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