Tim Yearnshaw is a retired elementary school teacher. He grew up in Dixon, California when it was a tiny town and often writes about his childhood and life there in the 1950s and1960s. He still lives in Dixon with his wife of 53 years, Vicki.
In this episode, Hal George revisits the childhood upheaval that taught him to hide his feelings and move through life like a robot. Tim Yearnshaw shares two snapshots of 1950s boyhood: the triumphant homemade police wagon that made the local paper and the shocking moment a single swear word opened the door to growing up. And Dan Rott recalls the wild freedom of chasing DDT fog trucks on bikes, a reminder of the danger and innocence that shaped his generation.
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