In this episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, host Colin Mustful speaks with Eliza Knight, author of Lost in the Summer of 69, about the music, memory, and family ties behind a grandmother’s daring 1969 road trip. When Eleanor Bell is diagnosed with dementia, the widow and former musician decides to travel west to revisit the concerts and songs that shaped her life—before memory makes them harder to reach.

Eleanor’s daughter Leanne and teenage granddaughter Nora set out after her, turning a search into a three-generation journey through the changing sound of the late 1960s. Knight and Colin discuss why Woodstock was only one part of 1969’s concert story; the research required to get artists, dates, roads, gas stations, hotels, and Howard Johnson menus right; and the choices that let historical fiction honor the  ...