Sylvia Plath began keeping a journal at age eleven and continued to keep one through her teenage years and until her death at the age of thirty.
Young Sylvia
Posts By: Teenage Editor
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Grad Party!
Congratulations Graduates! Caps and gowns, valedictorians, graduation presents and parties.
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Patti Smith Wanted To Be A Missionary
“Rock and roll is getting back into the hands of the people again, belongs to the kids again, not to big business guys” — In 1979, Patti Smith appeared on ABC’s Sunday morning program, “Kids Are People Too.
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War Garden Girls
The National War Garden Commission was an American effort in 1917 to “grow your own” in a time of limited food production.
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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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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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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.
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Lords of Flatbush
The “Lords of Flatbush” move as a unit through Brooklyn — chasing girls, stealing cars, and playing pool.
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The Cornett Kids
In the summer of 1964, photographer William Gedney travelled to Leatherwood, Kentucky to visit to the Blue Diamond Mining camp.
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Amish Teens
It is customary for young Amish people to complete a “rumspringa” — Pennsylvania Dutch for “run-around”.