Editor’s Note: This column is an except from Tom Purcell’s book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood.”
The MSNBC.com article said that kids raised in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s are survivors.
We survived chain-smoking adults, meat-and-potato diets and rough-and-tumble fearlessness of every kind — such as the bike jump that nearly killed me in 1972.
It was the Evel Knievel era, afte...