I initially envisioned turning this into a film incorporating video and still images taken from current events. I shared this with a circle of fellow lovers of folk music who regularly meet on Saturday mornings (previously in-person at the Worthington Farmer’s Market and at the time of this writing, virtually on Zoom) and received their positive feedback. It was Friday night, the end of the typically busy work week and I needed to express feelings of outrage from that most tragic event, in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic and against the wider lens of societal disintegration we have experienced over these past four years. It usually takes me a long time to complete a song, but the words to Eve of Destruction (Election of Destruction) flowed onto the computer screen very quickly. A few days after George Floyd’s murder on gripped our nation, I refreshed the lyrics to Barry McGuire’s classic 1965 anti-Vietnam War protest anthem.
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