Do the sixties and seventies really feel like ancient history?
I wouldn’t exactly call the 60s and 70s ancient history, but it definitely is history. I once mentioned how I was studying the history of the West Bank to someone I know from the neighborhood, and he mentioned to me that he first assumed that I was referring to the 30s and the 40s because the 60s and 70s don’t seem like history to him, since he was living here at that time. The West Bank has gone through dramatic changes since the era you studied. How does the current transition stack up against the cultural changes of the sixties and seventies? During the 60s and 70s a large counter-culture movement began to grow with students and musicians in the area forming co-ops, and protesting the war. Presently in the neighborhood, I see the few remaining co-ops and and stores as vestiges of the counter-culture movement trying to hold on after many past residents have left the neighborhood to live elsewhere or in Seward, “the suburb of the West Bank.” So many immigrants from North Africa have c
