A temperate zone is defined as an area that has a moderate climate and distinct seasons with relatively mild temperatures. "Mild?" That is a relative term. Even though I knew there were plenty of hotter, colder, wetter and drier places on this earth, the middle latitudes didn't always feel so "temperate" to me when I was a kid.

A temperate zone is defined as an area that has a moderate climate and distinct seasons with relatively mild temperatures. "Mild?" That is a relative term. Even though I knew there were plenty of hotter, colder, wetter and drier places on this earth, the middle latitudes didn't always feel so "temperate" to me when I was a kid.

A temperate zone is defined as an area that has a moderate climate and distinct seasons with relatively mild temperatures. "Mild?" That&nbsp;is&nbsp;a relative term. Even though I knew there were plenty of hotter, colder, wetter and drier places on this earth, the middle latitudes didn't always feel so "temperate" to me when I was a kid.

Life in the Temperate Zone

Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.

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Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.

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Life in the Temperate Zone

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