A Baby Boomer’s Tale
It was a hot and muggy Autumn Friday evening in the late 1950’s and I was bored out of my mind. We lived out of town on a small farm holding which wasn’t quite an economical unit and, as a result, Dad worked as a truck driver on long-distance haulage and only farmed part time with lots of help from the family. Our family consisted of me, a 14 year old male, my 15 year old sister, my mother who was in her late 30’s and Dad who must have been about 40. We were a reasonably close family but,