Perfect Attendance 1958 My experience with Sunday school was minimal due to my family’s only symbolic association with the Episcopal...

New Cars 1958 Straight through Aberdeen runs US Highway 12. Our house sat on the South side of the highway and directly across was Loel...

Candy 1956 My relationship with sugar is a long story of addiction. My mother grew up during the Depression and was poor, “not enough to...

Porn in the Shed 1961 Sex was, of course, a completely taboo subject in our household. It simply did not exist. This was true not only in...

Ice Skating Warming House 1959 About four blocks from our house was a good size ice skating pond connected to the grounds of the...

1957 I grew up in the city of Aberdeen, a railway hub in northeastern South Dakota. We lived on the west side of town, the wrong side of...