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Sandra wrote:

> I'm not talking about kids who had fun childhoods. My yard was two acres of
>
> apple trees! That was pretty cool, especially on irrigation days in the
> summer.
>
> But groups of people who try to re-create some chosen idealized past decade
>
> as though that were the height of and the last bastion of civilization
> (people wanting it to be like the 1880's, like the 1940's, whatever) are
> rarely looking at the bad realities

Ok. I reread your original post carefully and I get what you're saying. I
especially like the last line about kids finding a place where they're no
longer treated like company.

Mary J


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