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Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2538
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 12:05 pm: |     |
Okay, just when you thought you'd be left out of the conversation because you were too cheap to plunk down $9 to see Liam Neeson and Laura Linney in the movie, here's PBS to the rescue with a FREE TV study of S.O.'s first and very own sex guru:
Yup, airing at 9PM on Valentine's Day (That's this coming MONDAY, guys -- buy your cards, flowers, & candy NOW), "The American Experience" will tell you more than you ever thought you wanted to know about our boy Alfred.
But for those of you who'll be spending all of Monday evening watching "West Wing" reruns on "BRAVO" (instead of returning from (A)stepping out with your best guy/gal, or (2) COSTCO, just in time for the show to begin), here's the SOMA-specific stuff you need to know:
"1894
June 23: Alfred Charles Kinsey is born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the first of three children of Alfred Seguine Kinsey and Sarah Charles Kinsey.
1904
The Kinsey family moves from gritty Hoboken to the suburban town of South Orange, New Jersey.
1908-1912
Young Alfred becomes fascinated with nature, spending afternoons and weekends rambling through the hills and marshes around South Orange, watching birds and collecting plant and bug specimens.
1908
Kinsey summers at a YMCA camp at Lake Wawayanda, New Jersey, his first experience of summer camp life. He will repeat it as a camper and later a counselor into the early years of his marriage.
1911
Kinsey joins the Boy Scouts. He will become an Eagle Scout in 1913.
1912
Kinsey graduates from high school the valedictorian of his class. The official "class prophecy" describes him as the "second Darwin." That fall, he enrolls in Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology, where his father teaches shop practice.
1914
Kinsey withdraws from Stevens, severs ties with his father, and transfers to Bowdoin College in Maine, where he majors in biology.
1916
Kinsey graduates from Bowdoin. That fall, he enters the Bussey Institute, Harvard's Graduate School of Applied Biology, where he will specialize in entomology and later write his dissertation on gall wasps."
OK, return to your homes. Show's over...
-s.
BTW: a Tivo "MUST". Here's the website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kinsey/ |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2175
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 2:25 pm: | |
1914
Kinsey withdraws from Stevens, severs ties with his father, and transfers to Bowdoin College in Maine, where he majors in biology.
Yer forgot to mention that the only way he was able to go to Bowdoin after his father severed ties was that MRS. MAYHEW , widow of the South Orange Trustee, bankrolled him. |
happyman
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Username: Happyman
Post Number: 244
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 9:25 am: | |
Boy, this is getting JUICY!! |
mooewe
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Username: Mooewe
Post Number: 231
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 1:21 pm: | |
Young Alfred becomes fascinated with nature, spending afternoons and weekends rambling through the hills and marshes around South Orange, watching birds and collecting plant and bug specimens.
Do you think that when he went to the Reservation to conduct "research" into, um, "nature", he parked facing in, or out?  |
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