I'm tempted to say that times were simpler then but the people who lived through that era would tell you they had their own set of problems to deal with just as we have our own set of things to deal with today.
What's important to me about scanning and saving books like this online is that they give us a glimpse into a specific time and place into the past and the picture sets also insure that some of these people and places will live on forever.
I've got the 1968 Buccaneer and a 1970 edition yearbook from Hiwassee College yet to scan so stay tuned for those as well. But for now, enjoy 1956 ETSU style. Oh, one more thing, ETSU in 1956 was not a very ethnically diverse place at all, there was only one picture of a black person in this entire book and in that picture the black person was serving punch to a white person.
"I've got two rabid squirrels in my pants fighting it out."
my 1956 girlfriend,
this old dude who's picture I took in traffic the other day,
this mannequin head, 
and I wish all of you a happy and safe 4th of July. Let's hope next year we are all celebrating our independence from a lawless Republican cabal running the White House. And just in case any of you had an question as to where the 4th of July parade ended, it ends here.
