Growing Up in Small Town America
On becoming a heterodox thinker, part 3
I was born and raised, until age 11, in a small town in the Midwest. The town is a 45-minute drive from the state's largest city. It has four elementary schools (one of which is out in the country and takes students from a neighboring town), one middle school, and one high school. When I was growing up in the town, appr…