Friday, August 28, 2009

Fascinating! Eric Hanson’s A Book of Ages

Here's a snippet, more on flavorpill:

“When I was in my late 20s I wondered if you could draw a roadmap from the accumulated events of people’s lives,” explains Eric Hanson

"His picks for some of the most interesting ages in cultural history:

AGE 3

Sigmund Freud sees his mother naked, 1859.

AGE 4

Mick Jagger meets Keith Richards, 1947.

AGE 9

Hank Williams learns to drink liquor while living for a year with his cousins’ family in Fountain, Alabama, 1933.

AGE 11

In 1934 Charles Schulz’s family gets a new black and white dog. His name isn’t Snoopy."

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