Will That Be Regular or Ethyl?: Growing up Along Route 66 in 1950S Missouri

This is the story of the author’s life growing up in a large family in a small Missouri town near Route 66 during the 1950s.

DeWayne Landwehr, like many boys who grew up in small-town America, lived through physical and sexual abuse—but he also enjoyed some great times. His early memories involved raising chickens: There were always eggs to gather. Every day, the family would bring them to the basement to be washed, candled, graded, and sold—or washed, sanitized, and assembled into the tra...