In 1966 our college had an American Arts Festival. They invited and paid a good price to have performers entertain but the main event was three intellectuals were seated on a flat bed truck in a pleasant park.
One was Al Capp and the other two skip my mind right now. Anyway, Al Capp was about ten times smarter than the others and also more entertaining. Actually I think another one was Walt Kelley. Can’t recall the third.
Also a great balladeer Art Schreader. Also Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
Nice memories!
That should have been an exciting discussion - Capp was a strong conservative and outspoken supporter of the Vietnam war, making many appearances on TV talkshows and taking a lot of heat for speaking up about an unpopular issue - at least for a lot of TV types - the left finally brought him down with allegations of sexual harassment and outright assault as I recall - deja vu all over again.....