When ‘staying home’ simply was the norm

LORANE — This concept of staying home must seem very strange to our younger generations, but it is familiar to me. When we were raising our family of four kids, I made one trip to town a week to get groceries, and the kids and I celebrated by having lunch at Bob’s 19-cent Hamburgers or Arctic Circle before heading back home.
Our kids played with each other and with the Talley kids who lived across…