Busted in Bloomington is a collective memoir, a narrative created of interviews with over 120 people whose lives intersected during that time. It captures many voices, but at its center is a young, charismatic English teacher, Chuck Walls. “The story takes place in Bloomington, Indiana, but it could have happened, and with slight variations surely did, anyplace in America where the baby boom generation was finding its way.”

This is not the story of those in the spotlit vanguard who tripped out on acid in Haight-Ashbury, marched on the Pentagon, occupied university buildings, sat in the path of Dow Chemical recruiters, were bloodied in the streets of Chicago and the jungles of Vietnam—the iconic images that came to define “The Sixties” as we know it.

This is about the rest of us who never went to the barricades, who watched from the sidelines. We were no less transformed than our brothers and sisters in the arena, but we were disguised to our elders, and perhaps to ourselves, as agents of the status quo.

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MUSIC
“We Love You” – The Rolling Stones (Instrumental)
“Paint it Black” interpreted by Remi Panossian
“Bookends” by Simon and Garfunkel
“Come Together” interpreted by George Colligan

CREDITS
Narrator: Doug Storm
Producer & Host: Robert Shull
Audio Engineer: Doug Storm
Literary Consultant: Shana Ritter
Musical Theme: “Firetime” by The Keithe Lowrie Duet
Executive Producer: Josh Brewer