Thursday; October 19
On Wednesday; October 19, 1977, the Southern Rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd played the Greenville (South Carolina) Memorial Auditorium. You could get tickets for $6.25. For many who attended, it was probably a great concert – but, it would become even more memorable because it was the last concert many of the founding members of the band would play together. On October 20, the band would board a plane heading to Baton Rouge, Louisiana – but the plane wouldn’t make it through Mississippi. The plane crash killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie in addition to three other people. Over the next few decades many of the injured band members would recover and the band would be reimagined, but Skynyrd would never be the same. As I reflect on this day in history two things come to mind. The first one is that you never know what tomorrow will bring. As the band packed up that night, I imagine they all assumed their next show would be at Louisiana State University the next ni