1848 / First Women’s Suffrage Convention, Seneca Falls, NY

 

1859 / Drake’s Well; first oil gusher in Pennsylvania

 

1870 / Spiritualist camp formed at Lake Pleasant

 

August 17, 1923 / Juanita Morrow Nelson born in Cleveland, Ohio

 

April 9, 1945 / Dietrich Bonhoeffer executed at Fossenberg, Germany

 

July 4, 1941 / Brian Willson born in Chatauqua, NY

 

November 1952 / Rae’s older brother Toby born, two years older

 

May 5, 1954 / Ruth Ann Kelliher (aka R.A. Rae) born, Portsmouth, OH

 

September 30, 1955 / Reggie born, Dorchester, MA

 

November 2, 1965 / Norman Morrison, age 31, self-immolates himself at Pentagon

 

October 1966 / Enrico Fermi nuclear powerplant outside Detroit almost melts down.

 

1966 / Rae wears POW bracelets.  Brian Willson ships out to Vietnam (age 11 when Willson shipped to Vietnam).

 

September, 1972 / Rae begins Amherst College

 

December 31, 1972 / Roberto Clemente’s plane goes down in San Juan, Puerto Rico, carrying earthquake supplies to Nicaragua

 

September 11, 1973 / U.S.-backed Coup in Chile overthrows democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende leading to 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet

 

September, 1973 / Rae drops out of Amherst College at the beginning of her sophomore year

 

Fall 1973 / Rae working at Pickle Factory, South Deerfield, MA.

 

President’s Day, February 1974 / Sam Lovejoy topples the tower

 

Sept 25, 1974 / Sam Lovejoy acquitted

 

May 1, 1977 / Clamshell direct action at Seabrook NH power station, 1414 arrested

 

July 1977 / Toby visits Montague

 

June 24, 1978 / Clamshell Alliance legal occupation, 20,000 Gather at Seabrook

 

March 16, 1979 / Release of The China Syndrome

 

March 28, 1979 / Accident at Three Mile Island

 

March 24, 1980 / Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated

 

October 26, 1983 / US invades Grenada with 7,000 troops

 

August 9, 1983 / Father Roy Bourgeois enters Fort Benning, arrested

 

February/March, 1984 / CIA and Navy Seals mine the Port of Corinto in Nicaragua

(Two years before Rae in Nicaragua Jan 1986), Reported in Washington Post April 7, 1984

 

1982-1984 / Boland Amendment is a term describing three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting U.S. government assistance to the Contras in Nicaragua.

 

1984 / Founding of Pledge of Resistance

 

Sept 19, 1985 / Mexico City Earthquake

 

January 1986 / Rae goes to Nica and meets Reggie

 

February-March 1986 / Rae in El Salvador, working in refugee camp, meets Jesuits

 

May 24, 1986 / First kiss, Reggie and Rae, Montague, MA

 

Sept 1, 1986 / Rae moves to Boston and lives with Reggie

 

Sept 1, 1987 / Brian Willson run over by train in Concord Navel Station, Concord, CA

Reggie rides bike home from work and meets Rae

 

November 16, 1989 / Six Jesuits assassinated in El Salvador

 

June 1990 / Marie-angelique “Alix” Leblanc born in Concord, NH

 

April 1, 1997 / April Fool’s Day blizzard in Boston

 

August 15, 1998 / Car bombing at Omagh Ireland

 

November 1998 / 7,000 protesters at School of the Americas

 

November 1999 / 10,000 protesters at School of America’s Protest at Fort Benning

 

December 15, 2000 / School of Americas closed

 

May 17, 2004 / Gay marriage legalized in Massachusetts

 

July 2004 / Rae and Reggie get married at Boston City Hall

 

Summer 2008 / Reggie and Rae buy land in VT

 

September 15, 2008 / Collapse of Lehman Brothers, beginning of economic meltdown

 

November 2008 / Barack Obama elected president

 

November 2009 / Founding of transition book club

 

September 2, 2014 / Spectra announces pipeline West Roxbury, MA

 

April 2015 / Rae attends FERC meeting

 

May 2015 / Teach-in West Roxbury, line painting action

 

April 20, 2016 / Kinder-Morgan pipeline cancelled

 

Summer 2016 Group Buy Hidden Springs Farm

 

January 9, 2017 / Gas flows through West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline

 

September 2017 / Hurricanes Irma and Maria batter Caribbean

 

Feb 2018 / Reggie and Rae on St. Johns

 

September 13, 2018 / Gas explosion in Lawrence MA

 

March 2020 / beginning of Covid-19 Pandemic

 

July 2022 / Rae diagnosed with cancer (Rae is 68 years old, Reggie is 67 years old)

 

Aug 2022 / Clearness on Putney Mountain

 

January-Feb 2023 / Reggie and Rae travel to southwest

 

April 9, 2023 / Easter

 

Summer 2023 of blowback

 

Fall 2023 / Alix turns herself in

 

Summer 2024

 

Fall 2024 / Alix in prison for a year

 

May 5, 2030 / Rae's 76th birthday, born 1954