<p>Everybody had that one special teacher, the one who made a difference in their lives. Sister Myra was an open-minded educator who encouraged my creativity and broadened my perspective. It was the school year of 1967-68 and the entire world was on the brink of a cultural revolution. Let me tell you about the eighth grade.</p>

Everybody had that one special teacher, the one who made a difference in their lives. Sister Myra was an open-minded educator who encouraged my creativity and broadened my perspective. It was the school year of 1967-68 and the entire world was on the brink of a cultural revolution. Let me tell you about the eighth grade.

The Eighth Grade

<p>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.</p>

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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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The Eighth Grade

The Eighth Grade