When I was a child, back in the Parenting Stone Age (a.k.a. the Parentocentric Era), your parents were the most important people in the family. They paid the bills, bought your clothes, prepared the ...

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) ...

On Halloween night, pumpkins on porches were the only yard decoration. It wasn’t until the 1980s that other scary decorations ...

There’s a slight chance I’m slipping back into one of my childhoods — you know what that’s like. This would be the third, or maybe the fourth but who’s counting? The other day I thought of “cootie ...

Picture sun-bleached boardwalks, pastel cottages, and kids on cruiser bikes with baskets. That’s Seaside, Florida, a walkable Gulf Coast... The post This Coastal Village Looks Like the Set of a 1950s ...

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 ...

It's a "kid" oriented week for Nintendo downloadables. If you've been waiting for more Balloon Fight since downloading the NES game -- and of course you have -- Balloon Kid for Game Boy brings you an ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Curt Simmons, the last surviving member of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies Whiz Kids team, has died. He was 93. His death on Tuesday at his Ambler, Pennsylvania, home was confirmed by ...