Styles of the 60s
Long hair, sandals, hippy beads, tight jeans and a few groovy songs
The Baby Boomers of the Village of Birch Clump, Michigan
Peace, Love and black eyes / Doves & Hawks / Freaks, frats and jocks
Erik tied up Dean following a wrestling match
Side walk fight outside of a store.
Randy Vanvesterdyke about age 18 or 19.
Jig Rajan from Surinam (with the BC Class of 1969)
Those that could, meaning one had to be slender to get away
with it, had their inseams "pegged." That is, the inseams brought in even more for the ultimate fit. Hevy duty studs protected points of greatest stress.
Photo from about 1978 or a 26 or 27 year old. 
He just came out of the river. The bruising around one eye shows
what sort of activity he was in. The wet t-shirt accents his six pack abs, while the the clinging jeans outline the waist down.The bubbles sort of express how he might feel after a couple of forbidden beers and a good fight.
Another kid after a knock out fist fight.
Some of those country boys realy know how to mix it up.
Titled "Modern Metis Kid," meaning someone from 2005 to now could also fit the mode for a Baby Boomer teen of the 60s or 70s with his long hair and what would be tapered sking tight jeans of the older age or what they call skinny jeans today.
Phil Decker, Randy's freind from Beaver Island on a 1957
summer visit, is now reading the letter sent to him on Beaver Island, northern Lake Michigan in 1972/73. Meet the gang from the Village of Birch Clump in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Read about their loves, about their fights, thier successes, thier set backs. The historical fiction series in set between the years 1934 and 2009.
1969 Class President, Jon Swanningson.
Kid with a headband, 1970s
Two class mates slidding down an old coal chute (cleaned of soot)
Both genders wore their jeans skin tight in the 1960/70s. Randy championed to wear his even tighter.
A photo of the author in the early or mid 1980s has been
adapted to portray his poem "Snakes in the Out House."He did his own inseam "pegging."
From the short story "Fishing Hole."
The ropes were so tight that they dug deep into Amos' flesh, flattening tendon to bone. The knot is out of reach from his fingers, so all he could do was twist and writh as his hands went numb from lack of blood circulation.
Iggi, short for Igantious in his freshman year.
Randy, quite cute at age 15, wears the medicine
bag given him whne he was 6 years old. The throng mysteriously kept up wih his growth. 
Erik Fern at age 15 in 1967 when he first moved into Birch Clump.
Dean tied up while Trudy watches him writhe about.
Amos from Ingals MI. "Fishing Hole" short story
Bobby and Derrik battle it out in East Tawas, MI. Derrik was KO'd.
Long lost relatives find each other
Jerome recovers from having lost to Dean in the long drawn out fight described in Hawk Dancer, June 1969.
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Hawk Dancer, © 2004
ISBN 1-4137-4103-7
519 pages, illustrated
List, $34.95 Soft cover
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Cloudburst, © 2008
Birch Clump Portfolio
ISBN 1-60563-656-8
280 pages
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($14.95 Hard cover)*
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