James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Nov 29, 2009, 12:17 pm
For those of you still reading this, more will be coming soon. I promise. My next post may even be out tomorrow. As always - Stay tuned.
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Nov 19, 2009, 8:36 am
The warmth of the October Indian Summer gave way to the dreary damp and gray skies of November. Lyndon Johnson was elected our new president. There seems to be a lot of people who don't like Lyndo...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Nov 5, 2009, 6:36 pm
It's weird, this autumn of 1964. I'm trying to cope with going to this new school, this Gateway Regional High School. My body is going crazy, with pimples bursting through my skin, and my scal...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Oct 23, 2009, 10:41 pm
This is a map of Woodbury Heights as it is today, but pretty much as it was in 1964 as well. Find the streets I talk about in my other posts. My house is at the corner of Walnut Ave. and Tanyard Road,...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Oct 23, 2009, 10:43 am
For those of you waiting, if there are any, more posts will be coming shortly. Heading towards the end of 1964 and my thirteenth birthday. I'm going to try and tackle some hard issues, and I hope ...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Sep 14, 2009, 10:49 pm
I haven't been posting lately. Family matters and personal situations have taken priority. If you're still reading and would like to see more, I hope to be back soon. Stay tuned.
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Aug 18, 2009, 4:54 pm
The late summer/early fall of 1964 proved to be sunny and warm. I and all of my Woodbury Heights classmates and the kids from three other towns were getting used to our new high school in the fields b...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Aug 12, 2009, 7:42 am
There were days during the week that you were given free time to catch up on your homework, or to read a book, or just sit there and vegetate. These moments were called Study Hall. A grand notion, a g...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Aug 4, 2009, 8:57 pm
Seventh Grade moves slowly. I’m forging new friendships and trying to hold on to the old. Steve Kay and I are in 7C, the only boys from our former Sixth Grade class in Woodbury Heights. Vince Fitzge...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Jul 30, 2009, 4:42 pm
My body is going crazy on me. There’s this struggle going on. The Maddox genes are fighting with the Boswell genes and they’re mixing it up with the Gardner genes who are trying to hold off the Kn...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Jul 29, 2009, 8:45 am
The new school year also means the arrival of the latest television season. TV is starting to pull away from the 1950s a little more this year. Westerns don’t dominate the schedule like they used to...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Jul 27, 2009, 10:45 am
I think the people who planned Gateway Regional High School are messing with our heads. They’ve taken kids from four different towns and thrown us all together in one building in some kind of bizarr...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Jul 26, 2009, 9:55 pm
I didn’t know much about the Phillies until this year. I did know that the last time they had been in the World Series was 1950, a year before I was born, and the only other time was 1915, and both ...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Jul 22, 2009, 6:20 pm
President Johnson is running for re-election this year. The only thing I know about it is that he's running against a senator from Arizona named Barry Goldwater, and that the Democrats have their ...
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James M. posted an article on Maddox Corner - Jul 22, 2009, 2:12 pm
I started out my first few days at Gateway a little intimidated by it all, but after a while I got used to the routine, and I was making a few new friends. Most of my new friends were the smarter kids...
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