Me in 83 – John Booth Writes

Me in ’83 – Bee Season

The Thirty-Seventh Regional Grand Final Spelling Bee sponsored by The Repository was forty years ago today, at 1:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the former GlenOak High School East Campus. I was there. I was in sixth grade, and I had Bee Fever, man. The year before, I had won the Lake Elementary fifth grade spelling bee, earningContinue reading “Me in ’83 – Bee Season”

Me in ’83 – Winter, Western New York

My family began 1983 with a trip to western New York to visit my Uncle Rob and his family. That’s me in the middle, and my brothers, who are on skis. My glasses were of the oh-so-cool-automatically-darkening-outside variety. I don’t remember if this was in Olean or Portville, although there are photos of us eatingContinue reading “Me in ’83 – Winter, Western New York”

This is Me in ’83 – The 40-Year Edition

Back in 2013, I wrote a series of essays about my middle-school life 30 years prior, in 1983. Since it’s 10 years later, I figured why not revisit them now? The original Star Wars trilogy concluded four decades ago this year. So did “M*A*S*H”. Jaws 3-D and A Christmas Story both came out. I wasn’tContinue reading “This is Me in ’83 – The 40-Year Edition”