However, people born in the 1950s were raised differently from the rest of us. They were expected to manage their own boredom without screens, solve their own problems without parental oversight, and ...

In a recent post I contended that a major cause of the continuous rise in teens’ suicides from 1950 to 1990 was a continuous decline over this period in opportunities for kids to engage in the sorts ...

My grandmother was born in 1942. She raised four kids on a teacher's salary, and when I was sick with the flu in college, she ...

Here’s a favorite childhood memory, and other memorable downtown Lancaster thoughts from the mid-1950s. I remember catching the 10:14 bus (that’s the time it stopped at Roseville Road and Lititz Pike) ...