The National War Garden Commission was an American effort in 1917 to “grow your own” in a time of limited food production.
War Garden Girls
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Yo! Little Brother!
httpv://youtu.be/8L0H_w9kBx8
Nolan Thomas is on a mission to rescue his brother from the evils of cigarettes, beer, and hair bleach in the 1984 single, “Yo, Little Brother.”
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Tilt
Brooke Shields shines like chrome in Tilt (1979), lacklusterly described as ‘the big, pinball rock movie‘.
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Fighting the Debauchery of Our Girls and Boys
According to Reverend Philip Yarrow, author of the self-published title, Fighting the Debauchery of Our Girls and Boys (1923), 1920’s Chicago was a den of sin, full of ruinous propaganda and evil activity.
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Snapshots of Jewish Youth
Close-up portrait of three Hungarian rabbinical students in Budapest, 1940-1943.
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Stayfree Carefree
Periods. Every teenage girl has to deal. Plenty of companies are here to help, with some cringe-inducing advertising.
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Chicago Gousters
Chicago’s South Side, 1960– If you were a young, fashionable African American man, you were either a Gouster or an Ivy Leaguer.
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County Down
In my new project, County Down, an epidemic of psychosis among the adults in a gated community coincides with a teenage girl’s invention of a designer drug.
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Emma Girls
Emma Willard School in Troy, NY was founded in 1814 by Emma Willard in an effort to provide girls with the same level of education as boys.
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Best of Times (1981)
httpv://youtu.be/RQdJX8ZmLTk
The Best Of Times was a 1981 ABC pilot about the trials and tribulations of seven California teenagers.