Growing Up in 50s & 60s Fairfield,Connecticut USA
Life things inspired by the artist's Hometown. Welcome, and I hope you enjoy the things at this page!
To start: SISOMO! "sight sound and motion" - "FIYAH !"
Click here to enjoy "Fi-yah !" this brilliant 'Blasts from the Past' Flash video!
Once you've watched the video play back,you can click on anything and it brings up the history.
Enjoy ! Remember ! Wonder! Sing & dance along, it invites ! ...>
When the song starts you can also click on "Lyrics" in the lower right, and "full screen" upper left.
Find it at..... http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html ..... if clicking here fails to take you there !
It's a pretty wonderful show that says a lot of what comes to mind, when we are cued to those days! ~elle
If, after "Fi-yah!", my little offerings here could interest, please do feel most welcome!
Area Links and Notes, just below. So do scroll down and see the good ol' days are still around!
This Fairfield Girl was named Connecticut Artisan to the 2007 White House State Easter Egg Display".
Click here for the story, images and links !
Connecticut ~ Penny Postcards
Charming link to "Olden Days", from Fairfield's popular coffee house "Chat 'n' Chew" ! ~ elle
This page about Fairfield would not be right without mention of the famous Pequot Library Book Sale ! By any measure, a lovely Summer Event.
Visitors from Around the World, and two blocks away, come to the enjoy the books, rare and popular, displays, breezy tents and treats.
The Scenic Drive to and from the event is half the fun!
The Westport County Playhouse has been a vital part of the performing arts in Fairfield County for generations, and livelier every year!
Scroll down for Writings, comment, happy nostalgia and links.
e-mail me: Your Comments, questions,chat and suggestions are most welcome!
Fairfield Days, Present and Past.
Notes about the experience:
- A happy childhood, then "off to life with my new husband and great work, away from the Northeast.
-Twenty years later, the native returns and the experience as special as the books always say.
- Memories and reunions, and "the times" turn it into an adventure of a sort.
Links for:
-Civic,
-Historic,
-Commercial, and
-"just plain fun".
Stories will collect here,too, and, I hope, entertain and inform....elle.
Click here to enjoy "Fi-yah !" this brilliant 'Blasts from the Past' Flash video!
Once you've watched the video play back,you can click on anything and it brings up the history.
Enjoy ! Remember ! Wonder! Sing & dance along, it invites ! ...>
When the song starts you can also click on "Lyrics" in the lower right, and "full screen" upper left.
Find it at..... http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html ..... if clicking here fails to take you there !
It's a pretty wonderful show that says a lot of what comes to mind, when we are cued to those days! ~elle
Area Links and Notes, just below. So do scroll down and see the good ol' days are still around!
Click here for the story, images and links !
Charming link to "Olden Days", from Fairfield's popular coffee house "Chat 'n' Chew"
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While site is being upgraded, "P.O.R." is very liberally posted here.
"P.O.R" means "Price on Request" ~ PRICE CODE and ArtsBuy Data at Prices, Terms & Conditions. If the gallery display stops, it may have "timed-out". Refresh/Reload Page to Resume. Still not doing? E-mail me. Thanksomuch! ~ elle Bonus Puzzle Fun! : "Springtime in Fairfield, CT" click "stop" on this gallery, then scroll to page foot, and enjoy it ! If you fail to stop the gallery before doing the puzzle, it may interfere with smooth puzzling! |
Visitors from Around the World, and two blocks away, come to the enjoy the books, rare and popular, displays, breezy tents and treats.
The Scenic Drive to and from the event is half the fun!
- A happy childhood, then "off to life with my new husband and great work, away from the Northeast.
-Twenty years later, the native returns and the experience as special as the books always say.
- Memories and reunions, and "the times" turn it into an adventure of a sort.
-Civic,
-Historic,
-Commercial, and
-"just plain fun".
Fairfield GirlsWe are the Fairfield Girls!
We wear our hair in curls! We wear our dungarees, Rolled up above our knees! We wear our Fathers' shirts! We wear our Brothers' ties! And when it comes to boys, We take them by surprize! - late fifties hometown jingle Our children won't believe this They'll say it can't be true, No one could have been that dumb! Not in old days or new! "But, yes, my dears, that is the fact, I see no way to hide it, In retrospect,sometimes preferred, and so I won't deride it! The typical day of the Fairfield Girl, was like a Gidget movie! We cared not much for goings on, unless we thought it "groovy" The hair must be at Shoulder length And "Jackie-O" brunettes Won their fellows every time And their Father's bets! Dope? A name for wiseguy boys Sex, a mystery... Violence? Not in our town Our men were heroes, see? Poverty?.... for other folks Or, should it come, genteel Rock and Roll was here to stay! Its icons made us reel! ... ...to be continued... unless you stop me... delighted in your verse ideas... I'd love for you to top me... please leave out obscene/profane... the Fairfield page must shine... but I will publish at this page... the ones that come through fine... with your name and link, of course... or, if you wish, without it... but Fairfield ranks among the best and now no one will doubt it!...~ elle ~ I'd forgotten her, till PBS Special just now ... I sang in chorus and performed as a girl ... music, music, music ... my church choir, rock and roll, Broadway shows-every song or don't bother... some jazz, and somehow Peggy Lee ... I could do Peggy Lee... though not "in front of people, if I valued my life, I learned the hard way. Tonight I learned our birthdays were two days apart. I tested "I'm a woman on Mrs. A___sen because of her Scandinavian name... Mrs. A was horrified and asked me to leave ... bows in our hair in those days, and Steam was for irons and clams. :-) But Peggy Lee's lyrics: "I can make a dress out of a feedbag"...probably inspired "Gunne Saks" gowns for our daughters...the rage in the 80's, or don't leave the house. The song for a teen , expressed a young woman's fears of maturing a well as her mother, then climbed aggressively all over them and mastered it, one notch too much so for me in real life, but honestly. "Wind Beneath my Wings", "He's a Tramp", "Is that all there is?" ..... all highschool roleplaying "favorites". Public Television for neat memory ! |