My grandma loved talking my ears off. She wanted to make sure I was informed, but not just informed. It was more like actively involved. I went to local Democrat meet and greet things, marches for peace -(ban the bombs), organic farming, and other related stuff. She was extremely passionate about these sort of things. As I said before she was very active in politics. She spoke at local meetings of MOFGA. That stood for Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. She got me involved with some of the stuff. It was exciting, but a little too much to grasp. My family didn't even watch the news. I had never heard of most of the stuff she was talking about. She would have had a big problem with people who complain about the government. She would challenge them to do something. I didn't complain, but she wanted me to be 100% aware of what the government was doing. She didn't bad mouth the Reagan administration, but she wasn't very pleased with him either. Mostly she disagreed with the nuclear weapons talks. She turned her feelings into actions. Some of the pictures are from a march done by some Buddhist monks. I'm the guy in the blue beanie. The other pictures are from a Disarmament march in New York City in 1982. I heard that there was over 1 million people in this march.
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| Marching for peace |
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