It was 1969. Ohioan Neil Armstrong was the first human being to walk upon a celestial body other than the Earth. Thousands of Americans were fighting a determined enemy in Vietnam. Half a million people attended a "music and arts" festival in Woodstock, New York, as 250,000 marched on Washington to protest the war. A Massachusetts senator crashed his car off a bridge and swam to safety leaving his female passenger to drown at Chappaquiddick. In California, Cincinnati-born Charles Manson convinced a group he called his "family" to go on a murder spree leaving seven dead including movie star Sharon Tate. Closer to home four innocent women were murdered in small savings and loan on Delhi Pike.

And that was just summer! Earlier the first ATM was installed in the United States. The Concorde flew at supersonic speed from France to London. The micro-processor and the internet were developed by the US military, which led the way home computers, cell phones and almost everything we do in our lives now. PBS took to the air, the first Wal-Mart opened, and the Beatles performed their last pub- lic concert as a group. There is no denying that 1969 was a watershed year in the lives of all Baby Boomers. Everything changed as the world lost its innocence.

On Monday, Jan. 13, we will turn back the clock 50 years to remember that momentous year. The program is at the Delhi Park Lodge at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public.