July 20, 1969. I was twelve years old and at Jewish summer camp in Missouri, where we gathered in a giant circle in a field and sang “Aquarius” as Apollo 11, carrying three American astronauts, landed on the moon. The Woodstock “Music and Art Fair” happened a month later. That June, the Stonewall Riots took place in New York City, the turning point in the fight for LGBTQ+ civil rights. This same year, my family watched Hee Haw, the breakout country music variety show styled in a format like the popular Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, which we also loved. Legendary Black country music singer Charley Pride performed alongside Loretta Lynn, the first woman named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association. (Lynn was both a voice for women’s rights and a spokeswoman for Crisco shortening.) Pride’s and Lynn’s presence as lead talent on Hee Haw signaled its creators’ recognition of the times—the protest against the war in Vietnam, the continued fight for Black civil rights, and the birth of feminism and the second wave of the women’s movement.