FOREWORD 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charles Dickens declared in his 
     
     classic work A Tale Of Two Cities, “It 
     
     was the best of times, it was the worst of 
     
     times . . . .” 
     
    

    
     Growing up in Sturgeon in the 
     
     1940s and ‘505 was undoubtedly the best 
     
     of times. It was the age before 
     
     spacecrafts; it was the age before 
     
     supersonic aircrafts; it was the age before 
     
     computers, the age before digital 
     
     cameras, the age before plasma 
     
     televisions. Indeed it was the age before 
     
     electricity, before indoor plumbing, 
     
     before paved roads, before black-and- 
     
     white television. It was the age before 
     
     every home had a telephone. It was the 
     
     age when no one thought of locking a