What Dad Wont Tell You About Keeping a Beard – Seattle Music – Reverb

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2008/07/beards.php

From the page: “In 1986, when I first attempted to grow a beard, the general consensus was that beards were for murderers and maniacs. Almost no one in mainstream America wore a beard during the eighties, and even in Alaska a beard was a serious statement that the wearer ate cold beans from a can and slept with his dogs. The only public figure of any note who wore a beard at that time was Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who also wore a bow-tie, rode a mule, and carried a blunderbuss. “