The Rolling Stones rolled into America and caused a few riots, just like the Beatles had earlier. The Republicans nominated a curmudgeon from Arizona for president (it seemed that after the Kennedy era, politics was reverting back to the same group of old white guys). A handful of college students burned their draft cards and said they wouldn’t go to a place called Indochina, wherever that was. President Johnson signed a law saying you had to be nice to colored people, which apparently still didn’t include letting them into white schools, certainly not Edgewater.
Football two-a-days started in mid-August and Cassidy wound up his job at Trapper Nelson’s. Then he and Stiggs and Randleman went shopping for school supplies, and the next thing he knew, it was September 3rd and Cassidy was sitting in Miss Waldron’s homeroom, sweating like a field hand despite being allowed to wear Bermuda shorts for the first time, thanks to a directive from no less an authority than the Palm Beach County School Board.
His senior year had begun.