One of my most popular blog posts was originally published six years ago as I prepared to release A Daffodil for Angie , my young adult novel set in 1966-67. Now, as I revise my latest novel, which is set in the early 1960s, it’s time to revisit what life was like back then.

When you look at images of the 1960s, it doesn’t look all that different from the present. Well, clothing and hairstyles look kind of weird. But there are cars - funny looking, BIG cars - highways, TVs, telephones, refriger...