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To Ben on Father’s Day, 2020: “Ben as Dad”

Posted on June 17, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: I guess that, as a historian who is “retired but not shy,” I’ve spent lots of time over the past decade looking back, on my career as a History teacher and on the road that led me there. It … Continue reading →

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Ben, An American Dad, 1921-1986, Part VII: Legacies

Posted on May 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Although I’m sure he never understood it, Ben Lamplugh was a member of the so-called “Greatest Generation.” These were the American men and women who answered their country’s call in the wake of Pearl Harbor and did their parts–overseas … Continue reading →

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Ben, An American Dad, 1921-1986, Part VI: A Dad Alone, 1964-1986

Posted on March 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: The events of the summer of 1964 [see here] put an end to Betts and Ben Lamplugh’s marriage and shattered their family: Betts’ bus trip to Newark; Ben’s angry phone call later that day; and Betts’ refusal either to … Continue reading →

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“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: One Historian’s “Contingent” Career, Part 1

Posted on February 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Since I was first introduced to it, I’ve loved the term contingent to describe event(s) in history that suggest there is no single unstoppable, ideological wave moving humanity in some preordained direction (e.g., democracy, Christianity, Marxism, progress, the Enlightenment). … Continue reading →

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Ben, An American Dad, 1921-1986: Part V: Memories of Ben, as “Dad” (2019)

Posted on January 2, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: It’s not normal for me to wax retrospective on Father’s Day, but every so often I do. 2019 was one of those years. I had begun work on this blog series about my father, Ben Lamplugh, and I … Continue reading →

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Ben, an American Dad, 1921-1986, Part IV: Postwar America, 1946-1964

Posted on January 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: When Ben Lamplugh returned home early in 1946, he found himself in a house full of women: Betts and her son Rus were living with her sister Gertie, Gertie’s daughter Lynn, and two boarders, the England sisters, in an … Continue reading →

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My Brother the Writer, Act 3: The Prequel

Posted on May 1, 2019 by georgelamplugh

A Review of Rick Lamplugh, The Wilds of Aging: A Journey of Heart and Mind (2018). Available at amazon.com in both paperback and e-book formats. [NOTE: On two previous occasions (see here and here), I have reviewed books written by … Continue reading →

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Betts, A Mother’s Memoir, 1923-1964, Part IX: Grandmother Remembers

Posted on February 1, 2019 by georgelamplugh

Judith Levy and Judy Pelikan, Grandmother Remembers: A Written Heirloom for My Grandchild (New York, 1983). [Note: Somehow this volume wound up in my basement, along with a lot of other stuff from my mother, Elsie Elizabeth (Betts) Lamplugh, that … Continue reading →

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Betts: A Mother’s Memoir, 1923-1964 Part VIII: Betts, Ben, and J.B., 1940-1944

Posted on July 16, 2018 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: Almost a year ago, I put up what I thought would be the final installment of the series, “Betts: A Mother’s Memoir, 1923-1964.” But I hadn’t considered my “Historical Pack Rat” gene. . . . In the middle of … Continue reading →

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BETTS: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR, 1923-1964, Part V: Trying to Make It in Postwar America

Posted on June 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[Note: This segment of Betts’ memoir carries her family’s story from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s. For earlier installments, go here, here, here, and here.] * * * * * Shortly after our second son, Rick, was born, on November … Continue reading →

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