Growing up in Heaven, part 2

Editor’s note: This is the second portion of a column submitted by the Green River Historic Preservation Commission.

School, sports, the opposite sex, and the outdoors occupied the minds, motives and actions of the older students.

Their new driver’s license and – hopefully – access, opened a new door. Mobility, personal space, and freedom could be yours. So we all worked to get enough money for a car and gas. If lucky, we got the old car when the family bought a new one. However, to get full benefits of it you had to go, and stay, in school. In order to stay in school and sports, you had to ge...