Overheard

Back in July 1958 my grandparents, Memere and Pepere, gave me a red and silver pedal-powered tractor for my fifth birthday. That Christmas, Pepere built me a single axle trailer to match it. The tractor was my favorite toy and I’m sure it made them happy that I enjoyed their gift so much. One day in the summer of 1959, I was riding around the driveway when out of the blue, I decided...