![]() Nevermind that Sooz is being tailed by a shady government branch created by Nixon, and drags Pepper into her desperate attempts to garner support for her computer plan (essentially a very early form of the internet). So what's a 21 year old to do? Start a rock band.duh! Sooz may be shaping the future by bringing computer communication to the masses, but Pepper has some influencing of his own to do-with his Midwestern rock and roll. He can't quite picture himself as a suited lackey. He goes on a round of interviews, is courted by IBM, but he can't get Sooz and her revolution out of his mind. She's not about to let a little summer romance get in the way, so in August she goes one way, and Pepper heads back to college.įast forward to 1973, and Pepper is a U of M graduate, and highly sought after by all the big tech companies in Chicago. Sooz is caught up in dreams bigger than life though. After their school aged charges are in their bunks for the night, they sneak down to the banks of Lake Michigan, talk, dream, and *ahem*.you get the drift. Fast forward to summer break, and they end up camp counselors together in Northern Michigan. She rules the boy's club through a stunning mix of good looks and intelligence. ![]() He's enamored with the computer frontier, and intimidated by a young woman named Susan (Sooz). ![]() Martin Alan (Pepper) Porter is a young tech student at University of Michigan in 1970. ![]() ![]() Barry Wightman immerses us in the turbulent, revolutionary, innovative, and just plain *rockin'* decade of the 1970's in his book Pepperland. ![]()
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