Tony Snow dies
You can love or hate his politics and his participation on Fox News or as press secretary for President Bush, but Tony Snow was one wacky boomer. He passed away this past Saturday, after a long struggle with colon cancer, at the age of 53. His full obituary is here in the NY Times.
At Springboard, the reason we know Snow is because he participated inThe Boomer Century, the PBS documentary that we published the companion book to. In the documentary and in the book, he was candid and outspoken about what it was like to be a boomer, and even talked aboug his band (!). Here’s what the NY Times said about his musical aspirations:
He also had a musical flair; he grew up playing the flute, taught himself the acoustic guitar and played in an amateur rock ’n’ roll band, Beats Workin’. When they performed at the White House Congressional picnic, Mr. Bush jokingly called them “a bunch of, well, mediocre musicians.”
