The Good Old Days

Abstract

Today we are constantly bombarded with news through the media. Radio, television, the internet, and newspapers are seemingly instantaneously available and filled with news, both good and bad. We may sometimes think that the events we learn about in this day and age are so distant and different from those happenings in what might be characterized as having taken place in “the good old days.” In earlier periods of our country, and of our county’s history, there couldn’t have been the crime and violence that we are so frequently reminded of today. Life moved at a slower pace, people were more respectful, violent crime didn’t happen around here. Or did it?