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Jeremy McCarter
@jxmccarter
Co-author, IN THE HEIGHTS: FINDING HOME (https://t.co/Ci1sWc28eL) and #Hamiltome. EP, @MakeBelieveFM. Alum of @PublicTheaterNY, @NYMag, etc.
Dec 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today I’m thinking about the time I spent in 1918.

(I wasn’t alive then, but spent years steeping in the era, seeing it through the eyes of its dreamers.)

War in Europe, chaos at home—especially the flu. (1/6) Hopes were so high in 1912. Disillusion so bitter in 1919.

What happened in between? Everything. And it happened fast.

“We were children reared in a kindergarten, and now the real thing was coming.” – one radical describing the shock of American life in those years (2/6)