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In this episode of UNT POD, our University of North Texas faculty experts and alums discuss the important milestones from the summer of 1969, along with their continued reverberations. Ann McCutchan, a UNT alum and former professor of creative writing who penned a memoir in 2016 about growing up on the space coast in Titusville, Florida, perhaps sums it up best: “That was some summer.”

In this episode, we discuss:

● The moon landing and its effects on American ingenuity and technology
● The Stonewall Riots as some of the first, and most important, milestones in the early gay rights movement
● Woodstock and its celebration of music and the American spirit

Featured in this episode:

● Ann McCutchan, a UNT alumna and former professor of creative writing who witnessed the launch as a teenager growing up in Titusville, Florida
● Ron DiIulio, better known as Starman, a UNT professor of physics and astronomy and the director of UNT’s astronomy lab
● Suzanne Enck, a UNT associate professor in Communication Studies and an allied professor for Women’s and Gender Studies who serves on the Women’s and Gender Studies executive committee
● Clark Pomerleau, a UNT associate professor in the Department of History who teaches History of Sexuality and Gender History
● Sara Outhier, a UNT alumna and UNT music librarian for digital and audio services
● Hosts Erin Cristales, Melisa Brown and Kris Muller

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