A new take on the generation gap

A new take on the generation gap

Summer memories are the most vivid: long, languid days, the buttery sun, brisk water becoming just cool, romances maybe, adolescent aches, wonderfully awful food, clandestine warm beer. There are scents of canvas tents, outboard gasoline, charcoal briquettes, sun lotion (not sunscreen), wet dogs and always pine. Neuropsychologists tell us that memory consolidation — the process where our brains wr...