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Roger's LSD trip was a Top 5 Mad Men moment.
Great episode.
Great episode, cannot wait to watch it again to absorb more details. As the plot unfolded, I had the same feeling repeatedly with each character – "no, is he/she really going to do that?" – with Peggy in the theater, when Roger was about to take LSD, when Don was driving off leaving Megan there – like the girl at the driving school said in the previous episode, everything seems speeded up, everything seems to be slightly out of control. Like the '60s!
I have no idea what an LSD trip feels like, but that looked pretty cool.
If not Top 5, The Trip was at least Mad Men Hall of Fame material. Awesome. A little cartoonish — I took acid multiple times in college, and I never heard music stop and start with the opening of the bottle — but it was worth it just to see Roger tune in, turn on and drop out.
I did get zoned out on a package of head cheese (Google it) for a good half hour, though.
This show is horrible.
I'm curious…a survey…how many of you out there actually care about the fate of Don Draper? And, in a similiar vein, how many of you were rooting or pulling for Tony Soprano? It's all well and good to find pleasure in the novelistic aspects of this narrative in Mad Men, but, let's be truthful, it's garbage. Does anyone really care about Don Draper? The show is as sterile as their offices.
Looks like Don's marriage is already near the end. They are already into betrayal and violence. I am surprised I thought they would hold off til the end of the season.
Roger's "trip"definitely top 5 material! I can't wait to watch the episode again with my husband.
Care is the wrong word for Don. He is interesting and I care about what he will do next.
I think Roger & Don were great foils. Roger goes on his LSD "trip" and ends up liberated. He gets the last line of the episode, 'It's going to be a beautiful day." Meanwhile Don goes literally on a trip with his new bride that turns into a nightmare. Her statement that every fight diminishes them is significant (i.e., unlike the first episode of the season, they're not going to be able to resolve every fight on their living room floor). And in stark contrast to Roger, Don gets chastised by the usual hands off Bert who calls him on his lack of responsibility and professionalism. Roger is up. Don is down.
I wouldn't say I necessarily care about Don, not in the sense that I'm "pulling for" him. Why can't I just be a non-partial observer and see how his story unfolds?
I found it interesting that there were a lot of unexpected things occurring in this episode. The first 5 episodes of the season seemed to be centered around death while this one was centered around the unexpected times of the 1960s. For Peggy, no matter how much she still tries to be the "Man" during presentations, she still comes off to the men around her (particularly the Heinz exec) as still a woman. Peggy swigging back the liquor and giving out HJ's in the theater seem like something Don would do. Roger's trip was a view into the drug culture of the 1960s. Don's feeble attempts to "control" Megan like he's still in the 1950s was sad. His struggles to balance his own professional and personal lives is leaving SCDP on the cusp of losing clients.
Times are a changing. And the unexpected is the new expected for Mad Men in the 1960s.
LSD trip was not realistic. I was a hippie back then and tried LSD a few times.
things would be in 3 D lots of times and many colors. It did make
you laugh a lot too. Roger laughing in the tub seeing things was the most realistic
scene though but I expected them to be hallucinating more
Regarding the acid trip, if the host didn't drop and was monitoring the guests, why would he let Roger and his wife leave while still tripping? Hearing music when Roger took the top off the vodka bottle was a good and real response, but overall, it was not psychedelic enough.
My head was swirling. Was it the sugar cubes, the blowjob, the circle of impending violence in the front room? Don just needs to hold his mom's hand one more time!
I like how the whole episode was done out of order. You could never figure out what was the real timeline. I still am not sure if Roger's LSD trip was before or after him asking Don to run off to the HoJo. It was all mixed up just like the characters. Also I find myself continuing to wait for Roger to leap out the window.
The doctor from whom Jane and Roger ingested LSD is likely an allusion to the Manhattan doctor who was known to prescribe LSD to celebrities immortalized in the Beatles "Doctor Robert" from the 1966 LP Revolver in Britain or Yesterday and Today for those Beatles fans in the U.S.
Loved the use of the Beach Boys "I Just Wasn't Made fro These Times" from Pet Sounds in the scene where he dances with Jane.
Brilliant first half. The second half was not as good. The fight between Don and Meghan seemed contrived, with a predictable conclusion. The Professor wasn't actually Leary? He would have been younger. I think that was just Roger was being Roger. Peggy is perhaps the darkest character in this episode, she seems lost in the maelstrom. And yes the segmented storytelling following each characters story was very effective.
Roger calls the professor/guide Leary, and Timothy Leary did give guided parties in a house above NYC in 1966.
The handling of simultaneous stories seemed a bit awkward, but the idea of tiips/tripping worked (and it turns out that Ginsberg has traveled the farthest of them all).
This season is getting weirder and weirder. I don't mind the "out of order" conceit, although it's one I associate more with theatrical films than TV series. That whole office is falling apart, just as their world is crumbling. Everyone's high, or passed out, delusional, on the floor, or on the skids. Even the Heinz executives can't make a decision. Bert Cooper, in his retro bow ties and argyle socks, is suddenly looking like the sanest person there.
@SunnyBlack: Sure, I care about Don, but not in the commonly understood sense……I want to see how he handles things. I'm certainly not rooting for him, as I did, for instance, for Mary Tyler Moore, or Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda). Ancient references, I know. "Mad Men" is good storytelling because it fulfills the imperative of making the viewer want to know what happened.
If you came of age in the sixties, none of these things are so extraordinary: the trendy acid drop, the loose sex, the emerging gender and generational culture clash. But the fact that it's all crashing down at once on the firm makes it feel like the fall of the Roman Empire. One has to wonder how they can stay in business. Peggy is a complete mess. Interesting synchronicity between Don and the new writer both losing a mother in childbirth. I miss Betty.
Sunny Black, the Sopranos may have been more sophisticated, an argument I can respect. But your arguement that Mad Men is "sterile" is inaccurate. Peggy just went into a theater and gave some random dude a hand job. It could also be argued that The Sopranos used violence to appeal to a base desire in that of the viewer, in order to solicit attention. Perhaps without that violence you can't pay attention to Mad Men, if so it's not for you. And yes I am framilar with the David Chase interview you are referencing. Personally I always thought Tony got what he deserved. I wanted to see Tony change and he did, if only by becoming aware of his behavior.
Why so few visual Fx during the LSD sequence?
Could have been so much more compelling?
I agree with the comment that Roger is trending up, Don down. I've been waiting for Roger to come back around; his character was diminished and he needed a good day. Now that the old ball and chain is being cut, Roger may get back on top of his game. Didn't seem to bother him that the divorce is going to cost him a fortune; he felt a prisoner. Peggy—wow. She's in a crisis. Thought she was made of stronger stuff. Unsettling to see her unsettled. Would love to see an episode centered on Bert Cooper; his character is tantalizingly fascinating.
Clearly Don, Roger and the Heinz client are faced with a new world where women are not to be submissive to just say "Yes, Dear." That Megan was angry is a sign of a woman who knows her worth, who appreciates her being part of a team, not just the wife of the boss seeking to fill her time. The orange sherbet was just another way to express her anger. And, what, did Don think that she would be waiting for him at the curb, cowering and weeping? The Heinz client, this is the second time that he asks: where is Don. No matter what the "girl" presents is unacceptable. And Roger, I think, realize that Jane and he are literally a generation apart and really don't know how to communicate. Did he really remember the 1919 World Series? Jane was not even born then. Her mother may not have been born then.
What is the tune Don is whistling in the car on the way home from Disneyland?
I've always said that Bert Cooper is the only one grounded. He is grounded by a firm set of beliefs that the entire '60s oeuvre, in all its banality, cannot erode. Cooper has always been the character easily overlooked, but who nevertheless delivers the quintessential line or provides the singular analysis that saves the day. Examples: Season 1 — Scene where he protects Pete Campbell from being fired; Season 1 — The scene where he delivers the line. "A man is whatever room he is in;" Season 4 — Telling Roger Sterling — "Lee Garner never took you seriously, because you never took yourself seriously."
Bert Cooper seems to me the character deep in wisdom, education and learning. He is too authentic and wise to buy into the fraudulent, flighty intellectual trends of the 1960s. Witness those intellectual frauds that Roger had to suffer in tonight's episode. Cooper would have none of that. He prefers Ayn Rand and I suppose Fredrich Hayek. He had a Rothko painting in his office in Season 2, and he also appears to appreciate Oriental thinking and culture–at least superficially. Cooper is the rock of stability in the maelstrom that is SCDP. I would like to think that somehow Cooper will strike a bond with Ginsberg, who seems bright, intellectual and also grounded in a sense, though it is still a bit early to know how he will develop. His character does not seem fully sketched.
I want to see a Mad Man scene where Cooper has a visit with William F. Buckley, Jr., New York's conservative novelty of the mid-60s. It would be fascinating to display the other side of the cultural/political landscape of the 1960s: that is wasn't just psychedelia and counterculture, but also conservative dissent to the leading trends of the era. People like Buckley, Goldwater and even Nixon were symbols of that era, however upsetting they may have been to the Timothy Learys and his ilk. The 60s wasn't just about doing drugs and obliterating the traditional cultural norms; there was also a counterpoint introduced by conservative intellectuals whose credentials were the equal to and in many ways superior to the intellectual dendelions of the left.
Some of you may think this is a conservative rant: but I must say that as much as I like this show's basic storyline, characters like Cooper remind us that this era was not just a playground for leftist intellectuals. And, as civil rights was not just a cause of the Democratic Party (recall that Southern Democrats opposed civil rights and Northern Republicans supported it), the social progress that emerged from this decade was the work from members of both political parties.
As we see Peggy evolve into whatever, some attempt to reconcile her tension with her family would be good. What has happened with Peggy's family and baby? I am lovin the tension between Don and the young wife. She is really making him sweat – nice to see the alpha male get as he gives. I am anxious to see Roger's next move. Who will have him at this point?
Was the LSD segment realistic?
Oh, come on — not even close.
Yes, I do speak from considerable experience (though at a much later date).
The tune Don was whistling was one of the Beatles' early hits
Gerational seismic shift in this episode. Ginsberg, the creative team and Peggy are one tectonic plate moving away from Cooper, Roger Pete and Don's world. Roger is soon to be single, Don is trying not to become single, and its very possible that Peggy is learning that sometimes its better to fire heinz as a client than to try to please all of them. She may end up as the better rainmaker once she finds a client that is comesurate with her teams skill set, and will likley need to do this in her own shop rather than the one she is at, where beans are more important than the ad. The key is that the propduct is second to the buss of the ad, and she knows this….just as Don once understood when a kodak slide projector was a key to nolstagia above anything inside the box.
1. Bess Armstrong (Love Boat 1978) plays the shrink with the LSD.
2. Dr. Timothy Leary well-known for his aciid trip "tests" at Harvard, and author of the book, The Psychedelic Experience: A Guide Based on the Tibetian Book of the Dead" was the attending "instructor". 3. Roger never even asked if the pill could cause heart side effects. He should be on meds for his heart not mixing liquor with acid. in fact, LSD DOES INCREASE YOUR HEART RATE. Roger's cigarette suddenly becomes flaccid…
4. Life Magazine: on coffee table: "Doctors and the Rx Scandal" June 24, 1966
5. The 1919 Black Sox Scandal was a fixed World Series: The greatest cheating in Baseball history left fans disillusional; Roger is not alone with cheating
6. "The Naked Prey", not "Born Free" was the matinee. it's theme is SELF-PRESERVATION, blended with fear, anger, and borderline madness during a "trip" in a far away place in the wild.
7. Lots of Jewish themes this season: Roger want to hire a token Jew in the office (Ginsberg) who was born in a concentration camp. His dad, still loyal to the faith, gives his son "the priestly blessing", and is filing a reparations lawsuit. Roger's soon to be ex is a JAP. (Ginsburg has terror in his thoughts, from Cinderella to Martians in a concentration camp, he paints pictures with words.)
8. There are only three existing Howard Johnsons: Bangor Maine, Lake Placid NY and Lake George NY so those nostalgic scenes down to the shape of the sherbert scoop, were filmed on location.
9. Don is whistling "I wanna hold your hand" on the way home from L.A.10. The foliage was changing in the car background so it must be late September or early October. 1966
To the characters:
1. Peggy is wacky and becoming an alcholic.
2. Don has an attachment disorder along with Borderline Personality Disorder. ("I hate you; don't leave me" pub: 1991)
3. Megan is growing to abhor Don' personality in every way, beginning with his smoking habit & his selfishness; he wouldn't even bring Gene a big HJ lollipop! the last time they were in a round tabled restaurant was at Disneyland, when Bobby spilled his ice cream soda. Don was surprised and impressed she was able to keep his rage at bay…but that was temporary as displayed by his acting out over her rejection of orange sherbert.
5 .This marriage will have a shorter life than Bobby Valentine as manager of the Red Sox, (and he'll be gone by June….)!
6. Last Scene: Roger was liberated; Don was in a prison of his own making.
I didn't think the LSD trip was very realistic, at least not the way I remember it. (Though the bit with the cigarette was funny.) MM is still one of the most interesting shows on but, frankly, Wiener is getting dangerously close to jumping the shark.
One other thing, Don's "acting out" (exactly what the hell does that worn out phrase mean, anyway?) was an immature and extreme response to Megan but why has no one taken her to task for telling him to call his dead mother? That was a cruel and stupid remark, after all.
For me this episode was about the truth: Peggy realizing that despite her best efforts men still think of her as 2nd best, and her having the guts to demand equality both in and out of the office, Abe telling Peggy the truth about his origins despite his reluctance to accept it, Don realizing how much he loves Megan and how much he needs her, Megan demanding equality in her job and not just being Don's wife, Roger finally seeing that his marriage is on the rocks and getting out. Mad Men is all about advertising, where the truth is mangled beyond recognition. This episode shows the opposite.
Why are these people deserving of the title "expert?" I enjoy their opinions, but I fail to see what earns them the title of expert.
Nope. MOst of the details were inaccurate, though the time passing, intimacy, and comment from Jane about her arm were realistic.
Sounds like some liked the LSD scene, but I think it was one of the east authentic seeming moments ever on Mad Men. Anyone who has taken LSD would know that the scene did not capture an LSD experience at all and Sterling would have not been so calm and collected. I think it was one of Mad Men's weakest moments.
I am surprised at the accepting or even neutral comments re the drug culture of the mid 60s. We know now where it led and Dr. Leary and his kind are to be condemned, no matter the elegant setting of the party. Matt Weiner showed his skill in showing minds coming apart under the influence of drugs, by causing the episode to be jagged, with seeming unrelated events, e.g. the call from Don to Peggy outside the narrative at first. We see it later where it fits. Then, Roger's comments to his wife Jane, that she spoke 'German,' really Yiddish. The film Peggy saw was 'Born Free' (1966) with Bill Traverse and Virginia McKenna, shown last night, and she made a reference to the lions surviving. Those actors are not in 'Naked Prey' (1965). Peggy is growing so I am dismayed that one or more of our commentators so crudely discuss her peripheral conduct at a theater or elsewhere, missing the forest for the trees. She is growing in the work place where her role in Mad Men counts. To me, the haunting story of Mr. GInsberg and his father is the heart of the episode – recall in the mid 1960s the Holocaust was only beginning to be discussed and understand in its real impact as the central event of the 20th century. Young Ginsberg's revelation of his birth and fate is shocking, to himself, and most of all to Peggy, who probably had never heard of such a story, particularly such specificity, and its enormity. Elisabeth Moss is such a good actress, her reaction showed that Peggy gets it instantly, she is now for the first time
understanding what happened and cannot believe it. Meanwhile, Don likely will have to decide between his marriage and his second wife.
Did anyone pick up on the Field of Dreams reference with Roger tripping face and watching the 1919 White Socks in the bathtub, that Jane couldn't see, kind of like how Ray could see the 1919 White Socks playing in his corn field and his brother in law couldn't?
Now Mad Men is REALLY back. This is the 1st episode this season that did not put me to sleep.
Megan gobbling the orange sherbet was funny – Don was treating her like a prop – come to HoJo, leave the team & project, then all she wanted was a damn piece of pie and he micromanages her! I am not buying Don's depth of feeling for her, it must be something else. They look like a couple of mannequins parading around – except when they are fighting! Woof!
No, it was "Born Free."
Intersting that the nsiness of advertising is all abot illusion, and the souls that occpy its jobs live illsory lives. Fantasy mingles with reality, and rality always leaves them wanting. Don is clearly looking for a mother, Roger a budyy, Peggy respect, and Joan rcognition.
I am surprised so many readers of the Wall Street Journal experimented with LSD.
So question – what year did they outlaw smoking in movie theaters?
Noteable points:
1. Great set up for the angst & turbulance that each will experience, and perhaps become allegorically scripted in future episodes, as 1966 ripens into the great cultural chasm between generations.
2. Roger is going to drop out, now that he has turned on and tuned in.
3. Don will inevitably end up with his solitude …. he is like superman, then played by George Reeves, always going back to his fortress of solitude…hopefully he will not end up like the actor who played the role.
4. Peggy is now drinking and filandering, and ready for a strong dose of guilt and reflection.
5. Ginsberg has new dimesion, the holocaust orphan … and that will be a future catayst in a future episode.
6. I enjoy Mad Men as much for what it forces me to recall about growing up in the 1960′s by providing these points of reference, as any anything else about the show. I thought about my next store neighbor growing up, who I considered my best freind and played baseball with at the local sand lot, and whose father had numbers tatooed on his forearm, and my fathers explaination of them, Dad's knowledge gained fiirst hand during his service during WWII as a solidier in the 5th Army liberating Germany and seeing the reality of war.
gosh, no, the LSD trip was an embarrassing scene written by people who have clearly never ingested the stuff. The only moments that were "true," to use a theme of this episode, is when Jane said in wonder, "Look at my arm," and later, when Jane and Roger had their unusually thoughtful conversation on the rug. (And contrast that with Don and Megan's misery after collapsing onto their own rug.)
I was glued to the screen . The movie scene was nuts ,smoking a joint and then a little something else . I was thinking about the possiblity of Roger reliving his war in the Pacific ,and then laughed when his booze played music for him .Don is headed for trouble ,that's my prediction . He can't find comfort in his new wife outside of making whoopie. Is Roger thinking about the baby? Is that why he dissolved the marriage ?
Where is Pete Campbell? He should have been back in his misery,but I guess that's next
Glad Don drove away…
A Woman neurotic over work, while the Man is so clearly trying to take her mind off it, was depressing….
The fact that she dissed the orange sherbert was the worst…she deserved the Greyhound back
A brilliantly done episode in acting, execution and editing. It was like an LSD trip…..
looking at all the comments….geeee….people
life is crazy, just like this, crazy things happen, behaviour doesn't always follow logical lines,
truth can be stranger than fiction, etc.
an LSD experience for you is not the same for another person
lighten up
this is excellent story telling…..
Many things were going on in this episode, but I thought one of the major themes was the many faces of abandonment. In the first scene, Peggy and Abe flirt with the idea of abandoning their relationship. Don, the quintessentially abandoned child, has effectively abdicated his role at the office and then after a fight abandons Megan in the parking lot of the HoJo's. Roger and Jane practice wild abandon by taking an acid trip and then are forced to abandon the sham of their marriage when the drug brings out the truth. Ginsburg was abandoned in an orphanage before he was rescued.
There was also a strong Jewish/Yiddish meme. Several of the main characters are Jewish–Abe, Michael, his father, Jane–this episode contained the first reference to the Holocaust as well as some Yiddish.
All in all, a brilliant addition to the Mad Men oeuvre.
@Edward: "Bert Cooper.. is too authentic and wise to buy into the fraudulent, flighty intellectual trends of the 1960s." Perhaps. Both you and Cooper loath the 60s. However, if you are in the advertising business you have to know the trend, to predict it, to capture it. If you want the newly liberated women, the drug users, the ones seeking casual sex in theaters to purchase the products you advertise, you need to find ways to get their attention.
As a senior studying Shakespeare, the teacher as me what Shakespeare meant by a certain paragraph in Hamlet. My reply was "maybe he didn't mean anything by it; maybe he was just writing something that he wanted to write". Sixty-five years later I can still recall the withering she gave me. Shakespeare is long dead but Matthew Weiner is not. Why doesn't somebody ask him?
Mad Men is getting worse with every episode. If it's not nonsensical drugs and gratuitous sex, it's violence against women. I'm tuning in to something else from now on…and by the way, if this is supposed to represent what most of us were doing in the 60s, I'm John F. Kennedy.
Halfway through the season and already two marriages are finished. Who's next? Lane and his wife? Pete and Trudy? Don and Megan? Will any of them survive 1966-67?
I loved stan rizzos comment about illustration not being able to capture the realism of a photo in his illustrations. This fits in nicely with the theme of truth in this episode. Photos could not be manipulated like they can be today and were viewed as truthful because personal bias could did not play a part as was the case with illustration. I think that the characters in this season are getting to see photos of themselves rather than the illustrations that they had created of themselves.
But wasn't the flagship HoJo's the one near Cleveland Circle in Brookline? It was the first I ever saw, and I thought they said they were the first everywhere? (For so ,long, they had this little weather station named after Don Kent, the famous weatherman on channel 4, WBZ-TV, which fascinated me more than clams or even orange sherbert, which were both great, too.) 'Course the thing about Howard Johnson's was, you could not be in a rush.
Can you imagine a Mad Men classic episode without Betty, without Joan, without Lane, without Harry — and Pete Campbell getting all of one line (well two, actually: "You're off the account…. You're off the account."). It's nice to see Roger regaining his footing — and Bert Cooper delivering a knockout punch.
After taking LSD at the dinner party, Roger Sterling serves himself Stolichnaya vodka. However, it was not until 1972, that the PepsiCo company struck a barter agreement with the then government of the Soviet Union, in which PepsiCo was granted exportation and Western marketing rights to Stolichnaya vodka, in exchange for importation and Soviet marketing of Pepsi-Cola. This exchange led to Pepsi-Cola being the first foreign product sanctioned for sale in the U.S.S.R. — and led to Stolichnaya being available for sale in Western markets.
i thought it was brilliant, genius, magical. Best episode of a TV show I have ever seen, ever. About the LSD experience being authentic–we were observers. But being an observer of this episode–i felt as though i was tripping. i was paranoid the whole time. It was genius. Anyone else notice Ted Knight as the man in the magazine with the half and half hair? i must say the magazine looked a little old and a bit yellowed, not fresh. Also, this just occurred to me—the movie that Peggy saw—Born Free—juxtapose that with Ginsberg. Genius!
A great episode: disturbing and compelling. Interesting to see an episode featuring Peggy, Don and Roger in equal measure. The scene where Don was frantically searching for Megan was unsettling, and watching it as broadcast, I felt uncertainty – how would it end? You could feel Don's terror, and the sense that the beautiful, fun-loving Megan had impulsively gone off with some "fellas" and might be in more trouble than she could handle. This sequence borrowed heavily from asimilar scene in the Dutch movie "The Vanishing", but that's OK. Anyone who has lost track of someone they love in a public space can relate to this.
Don and Megan are deeply attracted to each other, but we see now that they are a volatile couple. Their passion for each other can be a double edged sword. When we see them stride into the office as a couple again, towards the end of the episode, Don looks self-satisfied, as if everything is back to normal, but Megan looked a little bit trapped. She wants to explore her creative and professional side, but perhaps she realizes that at 26 her role in the office is as little more than Don's ornament. Even Betty wanted to step out of that role.
Peggy's meeting scene was compelling drama. As a man, I took this confrontation at face value at first. I was surprised at her apparent impertinence. It is only in reading other viewers interpretations that I see the client's prejudice, and see why Peggy was right to stand her ground.
The episode continued with this series' theme of the darker and lighter aspects of the 1960s. On the dark side, the use of LSD, and the sense that there is danger lurking out there, in the parking lots and on the highways.
This episode also showed Jane Siegel in a light. She seemed much more introspective and insightful than she has previously. We also saw how beautiful she is. Up until now we had only seen her in the more confining early to mid 1960s fashions, but the more natural look of the late 60s /early 70s will really suit her. Divorce will be as liberating for her as it will be for Roger.
The bathtub sequence was fantastic in the way it explored nostalgia boyhood enthusiasm. It is amazing to think how much the world changed between 1919 and 1966. The Twitterverse loved that sequence.
I just like the fact that I can remember exactly where I was, watching the first run of Born Free, at the incredibly ornate movie palace the RKO theater on 86th St. and Lexington Ave… maybe even Peggy was watching! I was with my mother and younger brother…. don't remember the hand job however.
Edward's comments about Bert Cooper are terrific. One more Bert Cooper quote that reflects his "realpolitik": after the PPG merger, as his colleagues bristle over the loss of control, "We've taken their money. Now we have to do what they say." Beautiful and succinct. More Bert Cooper please.
@Hanna: Thank your for your response to my comments. You make an interesting point, and yes, advertising does need to capture the zeitgeist. I recall the 7-Up ads of the early '70s, when 7-Up was the "Uncola," i.e., it was the countercultural brand. And then there was the "Pepsi Generation" that was meant to appeal to Baby Boomers coming of age. Still, not everyone in the '60s and '70s was an LSD-using, drug-addled hipster. It seems to me that it is a bit more complicated than just capturing a nascent trend. Some products appeal to the values and mores that withstand trends and upheavals. Even in politics, for all the upheaval of the mid-to-late '60s, America still ended up with Richard Nixon–the ultimate symbol of Main Street America. Frank Sinatra made some of his greatest recordings and sales in the mid-1960s in spite of the Beatles, the Stones and other groups making incursions into popular culture. My father bought a new Lincoln Continental every two or three years from the late 60s thru the end of the 70s, because Lincoln was the ultimate symbol (then) of luxury and status. He couldn't have cared less for what the Berkley crowd was thinking.
The point is that there are multiple products that can be pitched in multiple ways. It is more complicated than just deciding that a bunch of immature individuals who are making a lot of noise are somehow the only crowd to pitch products to.
What I liked about Mad Men in its first two seasons was that it recognized the emerging counterculture (recall the episode "Babylon") and yet tended to portray it as a rather frivolous pursuit. I accept that the youth movement eventually captured a big part of pop culture and in later decades adult interests morphed into those of youths, so that today adult interests are hardly distinguishable from those of kid interests. Look at how many people in their 50s and 60s take their kids to Rolling Stones concerts and listen to near septuagenarians blare out puerile lyrics in shrill tones.
Today's adults are almost kids in style and also substance. So, yes, the '60s in a sense won because an entire generation was captured by its oeuvre and dressed down and became casual. But, I don't think Madison Avenue anticipated it right at its incipient stages. It was not until the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate that advertising truly began to pitch to a new generation of consumers in the ascendant.
This episode at least depicts Don Draper as almost part of the "old guard" in that he was excited about going to a Howard Johnson's. Who would get excited about that except an 'Old Fogie'? Howard Johnson's?? That is totally middle class, yet it was placed within an episode that also featured LSD experiences and careless sexual encounters (Peggy).
I really was perplexed by Walt Dellinger's comments, wherein he connected those intellectual frauds as somehow making profound commentary about truth and life. Come on!!!! They were just a bunch of posers and charlatans. Roger was correct in being bored by them and perhaps the LSD was the only good thing to come out of that horrid evening. Can you imagine having people like that at your house for an evening? They were intellectual lightweights, but apparantly Mr. Dellinger thinks they were profound. Perhaps he has been writing too many Amicus Curiae briefs.
Anyway …… thanks for your comments. They are much appreciated.
@Dellinger: Do you really think those intellectual lightweights really carried any weight in last night's episode? Come on!!!! Roger was rightly bored by their vapid conversation. I think if I had been at their place, LSD would have been a welcome escape.
I don't see this episode as really about the truth so much as it is about people trying to escape their own reality and perhaps trying to seek something else beyond their own condition. Peggy escapes by drinking and carelessly involving herself with a stranger at a theater. Don pulls Meghan to a cheesy Howard Johnson's, Roger and Jane escape on LSD. Perhaps Roger finally finds his truth after his LSD trip, but were he adept and sharp, he would have figured it out long before that and without the need for a psychedelic stimulant.
The only two grounded in the truth seem to be Bert Cooper and Ginsberg. They don't seem to need to escape in some phony uber-reality with a bunch of phony intellectual wannabes. Bert Cooper knows the truth and so does Ginsberg. The other seem bent on ruining accounts and pissing away their lives.
Obviously the use ofStolichnaya was a hint that the psycologist and the professor are Soviet plants and Roger is being recruited.
Megan is getting hard to like.
Has Don put on weight?
Yes. I think Don realizes that their marriage is going to be challenging because they are so different. The sex keeps them together but not for very long.
I had wanted to say something about the HJ earlier, and Evangeline prompts me to say something. This struck me as a male scriptwriter's fantasy and didn't ring true at all (much as I might want it to have some grounding in reality!). There were echoes of the movie theater rendezvous in Midnight Cowboy. Like some of the outrageous Samantha moments in Sex and the City, this anonymous encounter seemed to be much more something that would occur between two men than a young man and a young woman.
Loved how the HoJo scene with Megan and Don shows Megan acting out with the sherbert just as Sally did at the Thanksgiving table when Betty insisted she eat the sweet potatoes she did not like. Megan resents Don treating her like a child. Most iconic scene this week was Roger and Jane lying on the floor in towel turbans and bath robes. Michael Ginsburg is the most interesting character this season. I can't wait to learn more about him. Everyone seems to love the Megan comment about the marriage diminishing each time they fight. My favorite comment was made by Mr. Cooper to Don, "You have a little girl running everything.". Peggy, try as she may, is still considered a little girl in the MM man's world. Don treats Megan like a little girl. Frustrated and angry, Megan often responds like a little girl.
Taiana, yes Megan is unlikeable and yes Don has gained weight.
Does anyone have thoughts on the opening scene with Peggy looking for the violet candy that Don gave her before a presentation. An obvious good luck charm. As you may recall from season 2, this was Don's fathers favorite.
[" Friction seems to push the relationship forward. Each time they fight, Don and Megan seem to end up on that white shag carpet, energized and sexualized."]
Energized and sexualized. Those are signs of a good marriage?
I loved this episode. The main focus was on the character growth three key characters experience when they each take a "trip" on their own. There were three concurrent arcs produced brilliantly in linear fashion that focused on Peggy, Roger, and Don, respectively. In all three arcs, each of the main characters took a trip on their own, experienced feelings about being on their own, and then learned something new about themselves in the process. In the case of Peggy, her "trip" started through a fall in her Heinz presentation causing her to go to the movies on her own, even though earlier that day her boyfriend asked her to go to the movies with him. And it was no coincidence that she went to see Born Free, a movie about a lion being released into the wild to make it on its own. Peggy seemed to enjoy this time to herself; so much so that she smoked weed with and jerked off a complete stranger. However, she later had a conversation with Ginsberg about how alone he feels given his orphaned concentration camp background. Peggy realizes that, while she had fun on her own, over the long term, she is much better off sharing the closeness and intimacy of her current boyfriend whom she calls later that night to tell him that she needs him……..In the case of Roger, he takes an LSD trip with his wife. Even though they do this "trip" together, they realize that their marriage is dead and that they need to move on and go their own ways. So, while Roger does not go on his own, he embraces the reality that he will be on his own in the very near future. He even tells Don that this is a great day. My sense is that the next woman he settles down with will be someone with whom has more in common instead of a young woman who initially sexually excites him……And finally, with Don he takes a road trip with his wife Megan to do advertising research at Howard Johnsons. It is interesting to note that they are a hotel that is typically not a final destination but a temporary pit stop. O this trip, he gets into a fight with Megan and then drives off on his own leaving her upset and screaming in the hotel parking lot. Eventually, he cools down and returns back to the hotel only to find out that Megan is not there. He is now truly on his own, and he hates it. All he can think about is Megan. When he calls work to see if Megan told anybody where she is, he doesn't even care when Peggy tries to tell him about the failed heinz sales pitch. When he gets home, he is so relieved to see her there. Even though Megan says that they diminish a little each time they fight, it is clear to Don that by being on his own he learned how much he needs Megan. I sense that Don will be a much better man moving forward and will have even more strength to resist the charms of his many exes.
Bert Cooper is an interesting character. At the beginning of the series, he was the most grounded character, and the truth teller. However, his male chauvinism has prevented him from giving Peggy her due. The world is changing, and Bert can't see it. This compromises him.
To sunny black: please stay off this comment page; it's for people who appreciate the show. And anyway, it is not about Don Draper; he's just the frame around which the show is built. If it was structured around Peggy, Joan's story would be diminished.
Don is (was?) a shameless womanizer, and he can be incredibly cold, but I prefer flawed characters to superheroes. Like many of us, he's trying to figure it out.
@MaddestMan ….. I agree ….. Sunny Black is sore. I do care about Don Draper–and Tony Soprano too. Sunny Black must be wrapped up in his own psychedelic, blurred view of the '60s. The tune in, turn on and drop out slogan must have been something he took to heart–too much so. So much so that he can't deal with reality.
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Broncos, Saints, Chiefs stay undefeated; others falter [Week 5 Recap]
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Denver 51, Dallas 48 Trying to recap this game would be impossible. You had points after points after points. You had Peyton Manning running a naked bootleg. In the end though, what everyone thought would happened did: the Tony Romo heartbreaking interception late. That was the difference for the Broncos (5-0), who used it to kick the game winning field goal. Dallas (2-3) played great offensively, exposing the Broncos defense, but in the end it was all for naught after the one play everyone in the world knew was coming.
Indianapolis 34, Seattle 28 Up 12-0 early, it looked like the Seahawks (4-1) would romp and stake their claim as best team in the league. The Colts (4-1) had other ideas. Buoyed first by a blocked field goal for a touchdown (and getting to legally hit the punter), Indianapolis left Seattle scoreless in the fourth to take back and forth game. With this win, the Colts can officially put the Team Regression meme to bed. TY Hilton had two touchdowns, by the way, annoying fantasy owners who benched him thinking the matchup was terrible.
Kansas City 26, Tennessee 17 Down 13-0 at the half, having taken forever to get a first down, and having been stuffed at the goal line four times, it looked like the Titans were done. They scored the next 17 though to take the lead. The Chiefs (5-0) rebounded though, taking back the lead on a 1 yard run by Jamaal Charles run and holding on from there to stay undefeated. Tennessee (3-2) was done in at the end by two Ryan Fitzpatrick interceptions in the 4th quarter.
Cincinnati 13, New England 6 Tom Brady's streak of 52 consecutive with a touchdown pass was snapped as the Patriots (4-1) offense hit rock bottom. The Bengals (3-2) held New England to just 248 yards of offense. The Patriots didn't help themselves by going 1-12 on third down. A 1 yard run by BenJarvus Green-Ellis with 9:21 to go was the only touchdown of the game.
New Orleans 26, Chicago 18 The Chicago defense couldn't stop Drew Brees, while Jay Cutler made his usual number of mistakes, and that proved the defense as the Saints (5-0) stay unbeaten, one of three teams now unblemished. Brees went 29/35 for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns. Cutler had a very good throwing day, but lost a fumble. The Bears (3-2) were never fully out of it, but at one point did they lead.
Baltimore 26, Miami 23 A field goal with 1:42 left proved to be the winning points for the Ravens (3-2), who remain one of the more bipolar teams in the league. Baltimore appeared to have the game under control in the second half, before Joe Flacco threw a terrible pick six that allowed the Dolphins (3-2) to tie the game. The Ravens rebounded with the ensuing field goal. Miami had a chance on a drive late, but an Elvis Dumervil sack, the 6th of the game for the Ravens, forced a 57 yard field goal attempt that wasn't close.
Green Bay 22, Detroit 9 Two of the best offenses in football, so naturally it took after three quarters to get a touchdown. At least that touchdown came on a great catch and run by James Jones for 83 yards. The Packers (2-2) tacked on two more field goals, which proved more than enough against a Lions (3-2) team that clearly missed Calvin Johnson. Without Megatron, Detroit averaged just 5.6 yards per pass. Green Bay, meanwhile, needs to figure out why they couldn't turn their ball movement into touchdowns.
Philadelphia 36, N.Y. Giants 21 The Eagles offense looked closer to what was advertised this week against the dumpster fire that is the Giants. This even though Michael Vick left with an injury. Nick Foles played the entire second half and played pretty well: 16/25, 197 yards, 2 TDs. For the Giants (0-5), turnovers were again an issues, as Eli threw 3 interceptions and Brandon Jacobs lost a fumble. The Eagles (2-3) are now in first place in the NFC East. Really.
St. Louis 34, Jacksonville 20 Somehow this crappy game ended up one of the higher scoring ones. Justin Blackmon returned from suspension and wasn't bad. That was good for the Jaguars (0-5). Blaine Gabbert is still terrible, throwing 2 picks, one returned for a touchdown. That's bad. Gabbert did leave in the third with a hamstring injury. That's good. They're still the Jaguars and the toppings on their post game ice cream contain potassium benozate....That's bad.
The Rams (2-3) looked competent today. The next step is doing it against a real football team.
Arizona 22, Carolina 6 This was the other game that was on while everyone was watching Denver and Dallas. The Cardinals (3-2) managed only 250 yards of offense but still managed to score the only touchdowns. The Panthers (1-3) committed four turnovers, including three Cam Newton picks. Carson Palmer also threw three interceptions. Good thing no one was watching.
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Dear Annie: My husband and I adopted our daughter at birth. When my mother-in-law found out that "Amanda" is biracial, she informed my husband that we were no longer welcome in her home. Initially, she admitted it was simple racism, but now she says it's because she can never accept a child "not of my own blood." When our daughter was 3, Mom visited and told Amanda that she was a "friend," not a relative.
No one was hurt in this two-car traffic accident that occurred around 3:30 p.m. Thursday on South Broad Street (U.S. 521) near Historic Camden. Lt. Mike Stone of the Camden Police Department said the accident occurred after one driver attempted to make a left turn onto Ehrenclou Drive and struck another vehicle. The car was traveling north on Highway 521 and made the turn in front of oncoming traffic heading south. "Basically a car turned left in front of the other and they couldn't avoid each other and collided," Stone said. He said no one was ...
The Kershaw County Government Center has looked a little more like Santa's workshop lately as county offices have been decked out with candy canes, garland, and all kinds of other holiday decorations.
A memorial service for Ferdinand Vincent "Cort" Marzullo, IV, 40, of Camden will be held at Grace Episcopal Church Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:00 pm. The family will receive friends following the service. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in Mr. Marzullo's memory to the Marzullo Educational Trust, C/O TD Bank, 315 East DeKalb Camden, SC 29020.
Karl Rove, a star political strategist, is outraged that Donald Trump, a star real-estate mogul and reality show host, is staging a reality show with real Republican presidential candidates and calling it a debate. Yet, with all due respect, Trump is only exploiting a process that political strategists like Rove already hijacked.
WASHINGTON -- It is a rare day when Al Sharpton emerges as the voice of sagacity, but when Newt Gingrich has the microphone, all things are possible.
Lugoff-Elgin Middle School (L-EMS) is hosting Jennifer Lanier (standing), a graduate student in the Library and Information Science School at the University of South Carolina. Lanier is completing an internship this fall at L-EMS with Mrs. Anne C. Lemieux. Here, Lanier works with Julie Stockman's 8th grade ELA classes on the steps of the "Research Process." This is the first of several lessons Lanier will be completing with this group. Lanier is utilizing TRAILS (Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of the students. A pre- and post-assessment is ...
Leslie M. Stover Middle School students participated in the 2011 SC All State Chorus. These students auditioned and were accepted in the Spring of 2011 as a part of the Stover Middle Chorus. In the fall, some Stover and Lugoff-Elgin High School students had to learn a new repertoire of music for the ACDA All State Chorus Festival at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC. Members include Haylee Pagan, Moriah Payne, Ty Morgan, Kayce Robinson, Kendra Mills, Gabriel Medina, Montanna Marsh, Emily Murphy, and Kaitlyn Fuller. Stover Middle is very proud.
If you earned income in the last few years but you didn't file a tax return because your wages were below the filing requirement, the Internal Revenue Service may have some money for you. The IRS also has millions of dollars in checks that are returned each year as undeliverable.
Air Force Airman Kenneth A. Brandon graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
Leon Robinson, of Camden, husband of Sally Robinson, died December 10, 2011. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, David Robinson and his wife, Paula Belmar; daughters, Rebecca Robinson and Katherine Furgason; grandchildren, India, Robbie, and Mia Robinson, and Sophie Cooper; a brother, Eli Robinson and his wife Lila, of Long Island, NY.
A memorial service for Betty Jean Roberts Altman, 83, of Camden formerly of Atlanta, GA will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in Mrs. Altman's memory to the Walter M. Crowe Animal Shelter, 460 S. Fair Street, Camden, SC 29020.
Bill and Luna Clark were married December 10, 1951 and are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. They live on Bayview Drive in Lugoff and have two children, Barry Dean Clark and Norma Lee Wilson. They have four grandchildren Michelle Clark, Justin Lee Wilson, Morgan Lee Wilson and Zackary Lee Wilson.
The following are menus for Kershaw County schools for the week of Dec. 12-16:
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The ABLE Club of S.C., the official athletic booster club of Lugoff-Elgin High School, is kicking off its membership campaign for the 2014-15 athletic seasons at the school.
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Join the Exploratorium for a special Severe Storms Day on Sunday, March 18, 2012. Highlights of the day will include demonstrations, film screenings and talks about extreme weather events with scientists from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Severe Storms Laboratory. Visitors can also see one of the "storm-chasing" cars used to study tornados, thunderstorms and hail, watch lightning and weather demos with Explainers, and see images of severe weather. All these events are included with admission to the Exploratorium. The NOAA scientists will be in residence at the Exploratorium from March 8-25, 2012.
Severe storms and weather disasters dominated the news in 2011: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tracked a record-setting 14 weather and climate disasters that each totaled more than $1 billion in damages, and together claimed more than 300 lives.
Severe Storm Scientists in Residence at the Exploratorium
With weather disasters seemingly on the rise, it's increasingly important that scientists better understand these severe storms and that communities are prepared for them. At the forefront of this research is NOAA's Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma - and visitors to the Exploratorium will have a chance to learn more about severe storms when the museum hosts three NSSL scientists from March 8-25. Floor programs will begin on March 14 until the 25th, with a Severe Storm Day on Saturday, March 18, 2012. The scientists will be partnering with Exploratorium Explainers for electricity demonstrations, public talks in the McBean Theater, and tours of a "storm-chasing" car used to study tornadoes and thunderstorms.
The Scientists-in-Residence include Dave Rust, a weather-instrument tinkerer and lightning expert. Recently retired from NOAA, Dave is world renowned for his inventions and skill at using un-tethered balloons and his hand-built devices to delve into the mysteries of lightning. Susan Cobb is a meteorologist by training and works for NSSL's communication department as a writer and educator. Susan is a recent participant in a community workshop in Norman as part of NOAA's Weather-Ready-Nation program to improve communication and help communities better prepare for disasters. Sean Waugh is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma and was part of NSSL's VORTEX 2 project. More than 100 scientists, students and staff from around the world were dispatched to the Great Plains during tornado season in 2009 and 2010 to collect weather measurements around and under a supercell thunderstorm. VORTEX2 teams used a fleet of 10 mobile radars, and 70 other vehicles all equipped with cutting-edge communication and computer technologies. Sean will be bringing the storm-chasing car, known as the mobile mesonet, that he drove for VORTEX2 out from Oklahoma, where it will be displayed near the Exploratorium's iconic tornado exhibit.
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Rallying call issued over threatened bus service
The 46-year-old was followed by another driver after hitting some street furniture in Fenay Bridge
Engineers worked through Monday night and restored supplies to 150 of the affected properties on the Greenlea Court estate at lunchtime
John Harry Forbes has been summoned before the Health and Care Professions Council's Conduct and Competence Committee in London
Regulator acts after experienced sister Ruth Baker abandoned unit to babysit for her cousin
Jessica Baxter, 26, said her four year old cat Albie died on the vet's table on Sunday evening after being found collapsed in a neighbour's garden
The new fire station in Clough Lane will replace Brighouse and Elland stations and is expected to open in March next year
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Can you help track down the perpetrator in this sickening attack?
Northern Gas Networks said it caused water to enter the gas network on Monday evening and this morning engineers from Northern Gas Networks were continuing work to restore gas supplies
The woman was inside a silver-coloured Vauxhall Corsa when it collided with a blue Range Rover
Colne Valley MP Jason McCartney is again behind the special event which will bring together dozens of local employers and those looking for work to tackle unemployment in the area
Huddersfield University helps launch touring rugby league exhibition
James Johnson, of Wyke, Bradford, has admitted causing the death of the 18-year-old by dangerous driving
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Fuse carrier had worked loose and tripped itself as intended to prevent anything worse happening
Mr Freeman says despite the system being in place for a year, motorists were still confused about how it works
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AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Precarious situation in Central Africa; Paris announces the sending of other 800 soldiers
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, due to the spreading of rumors on the infiltration in the city of "anti Balaka", self-defense groups created to defend themselves against abuses committed by the former Seleka rebels.
The anti Balaka groups have already clashed with men of Seleka in other areas of the Country, particularly in the nort -west, in the area of Bossangoa, and in the west, in Bouar.
Because of the precarious situation of Central Africa, France has announced that it is preparing to send other 800 soldiers in addition to the 410 French soldiers that ensure the safety of the airport in Bangui .
Their job is to provide support to the African military of MISCA (International Mission of Support for Central Africa)..
The fear of many observers is that Central Africa sinks into a sectarian conflict between Christians and Muslims (Seleka is made up largely of Muslims including foreigners) and that jihadist groups take advantage of the chaos. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 26/11/2013)
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Vermont This Week
July 13, 2012Episode Guide »
Stewart Ledbetter, Moderator; Ross Sneyd, Vermont Public Radio; Sam Hemingway, Burlington Free Press; Susie Steimle, WCAX.
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The story of the Straus Family Creamery began when Bill Straus started farming here on the beautiful shores of Tomales Bay in 1941 with a herd of just 23 cows. In 1950, Bill was joined on the ranch by his newlywed, Ellen.
In 1980, Ellen Straus co-founded MALT, which was the United States' first agricultural land trust. In 1992, the Straus family sold a conservation easement to MALT, and those funds helped Ellen and Bill's son Albert turn the dairy into the first certified organic dairy and creamery west of the Mississippi River.
The milk used to make their organic dairy products is from cows that are born and raised on their farm and from three neighboring certified organic farms. The glass bottles, which Ellen Straus helped design, still bear the image of her hand-drawn calf licking the raindrops from a drought-breaking winter storm. Straus Family Creamery has a long history of being active in farmland protection and environmental issues. Ellen Straus read the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson in the early 1960s and began the family's strong commitment to environmental sustainability. When the phone rang in their Straus ranch house, Bill would proclaim to Ellen, "It's the environment calling." Today, the Straus family continues to consider stewardship of the land one of their most important responsibilities, and Albert Straus has taken a bold step in reducing the impact on the environment by installing a methane digester to produce the dairy's own electricity.
Today, Straus Family Creamery products include organic milk, yogurt, butter, ice cream, and frozen yogurt which are primarily sold in California and are also available in other western states. To learn more about Straus Family Creamery and where you can find their products, please visit www.strausfamilycreamery.com.
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Betty Vernell Shepperd Keim, 86, of Bellefontaine, passed away Thursday morning, Jan. 10, 2013, at Logan Acres Care Center, in Bellefontaine.
Betty was born on April 18, 1926, in Gas City, Ind., the daughter of the late Nellie Hewitt and Cloyd "Happy" Clark. On Sept. 18, 1945, she married Keith A. Keim, in Gas City, and he preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Ronald Shepperd, and brother-in-law, Glenn Keim.


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When: Sept. 19 & 20
Location: National Hispanic Cultural Center
Ticket Info
Free for all ages.
Join our community for the annual Fire & Ice Festival at the Village Park in Jemez Springs, NM for some old fashioned, rip roaring, winter-time fun for the whole family.
Enjoy a professional Chain Saw carving exhibition with amazing hand carved sculptures on display for admiring and/or purchasing! Bring your taste buds along for the Chile Cook-Off! As all New Mexicans know, Chile is an excellent way to warm up from the inside out on a cold winters day!
There will also be cross-cut log sawing competitions, chicken poop bingo, and many other activities and contests for children of all ages, along with arts & crafts booths, great live music, and tasty food and beverages--including a beer garden for the adults!
The fun will continue on into the darkness this year. Planned activities include bon-fires in the park, (food and drinks still available), sparklers for big and little kids, and, weather permitting, a finale of fireworks!
Mark your calendars and bring your friends and family! For information on available lodging, restaurants and things to do in the area please go to the Jemez Spring website.
Want to be a part of it all! For event participation information---prospective volunteers, arts & crafts booth space, and food vendors are welcome to call Therese or Tanya at 575-829-9175 for more information! See you there!
Village of Jemez Springs
Address: Jemez Springs Village Park Hwy 4
Jemez Springs, NM 87025