Great Leaps Forward

   Agenda | Posted on December 2, 2014

Although she was born in 1965, Rachel Williams-Smith's story could have been set in the 1800s.

Wearing long dresses and broad-brimmed bonnets, she grew up without modern conveniences like electricity, telephone, radio, television or indoor plumbing. She, along with her two older brothers, was shaped by the extreme religious views of her iron-willed, Vietnam veteran father and practical-minded mother.

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