Provided Gerald Smith News Today

Spanning Time: 50 years ago, a time of great change in Broome County and the nation Gerald Smith, Special to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © Provided A Zenith 26” television cost more than $600 in 1971. In thinking about this column, I began to look back at the articles that appeared in the Evening Press in January 1971 — fifty 50 years ago. Somehow, that doesn’t feel like so many years, even though it is five decades.  In 1971, the nation was still in the midst...