Looking back at the 60's

It's almost midnight, and instead of a fable for tomorrow, I'm going to use these last three minutes of today to reflect a little on the 1960s--before 1964--when two watershed moments came.  Miss Purvis, my science teacher at Columbia High School, who word "old lady" black shoes, told us about someone named Rachel Carson, who had just written a wonderful new book that was going to change the world. The other was when Miss Pitts came into our room with new technology although we didn't use the word technology back then.  It was a machine that made it possible for her to project an image on the screen while she was facing us.  An overhead projector.