Part 1
URBANNA — I was 33 years old then, almost 50 years ago, living in Palm Beach County, Fla. It was in the mid-1970s, and I was a rather harassed wife and mother of two rambunctious children, daughter, Liz, 10, and son, Wake, 5.
The Cincinnati Reds had won the World Series that year as they did the following season. President Gerald Ford had pardoned President Richard Nixon and was about to be defeated at the polls for doing so giving the country the kind, gentle and honest Jimmy Carter, who had promised never to lie to us, and delivered four years of incredibly high inflation, interest rates and unemployment.
