Enjoy the music, politics, fashion, televison and movie fare of the 1960s. Did you know that 2 days before the blizzard of 1967 that brought the Midwest to a halt, it was a balmy 65 degrees? Or that Wild Thing by the Troggs kicked the Beatle's Paperback Writer off the top of the pop charts? Or that Gomer Pyle USMC replaced the Dick Van Dyke Show? These details unique to 1966 and 1967 also include the Apollo 1 disaster, what young men did to avoid the draft and Vietnam, and President Johnson's conclusion in 1966 that the Vietnam War had been as good as won. All of this incredible history,...

One morning, while his father worked on a novel that would one day become a best seller (for an entire four days ), Allen, at age five, asked, "Dad, can I write?" Dad said, "Well, let's see . . ." They wrote together; or at least the son wrote. Dad took dictation. The result became - Allen's Rocket, specifically for children as they enter the realm of chapter books. Allen dreams of flying his own rocket ship into space, and receives a mysterious challenge from the even more mysterious Dr. Intelligent. That is, if Allen can pass a test he'll receive the the space ship of his dreams. But when...