Jeffrey Rasley's Blog - Posts Tagged "beatles"

Not to be overly dramatic, but the "Big Ed" story came to me like Proust's madeleine experience. The whole story filled my mind after seeing some kids wrestling around at my local YMCA. Ala Proust, there were gaps in my memory of what happened one day at my grade school in 1965, so imagination was used to create this work of auto-fiction. Back then, the culture war fought out at my small-town Midwestern grade school was whether the Beatles were cooler than Elvis. But when a new kid from LA transferred to our school, a different battle ensued.
The Day Big Ed Came to Parkside School