Yesterday I serendipitously fell upon a Facebook page devoted to those of us who grew up in Taylor, Michigan. On this page were some old photos of the Ecorse Drive-In theater that was located on Ecorse Road between Pardee and Monroe when I was kid. I remember well the day in 1980 when the screen was blown down by a wind storm.

I was overcome with nostalgia when I saw the pictures, and wondered, “What causes us to be nostalgic? What is that warm feeling we get when we recall a memory from our childhood?”

I plan to devote an hour of a future show to exploring the subject, but for now here is an interesting article I read while doing research for that future show. Keep in mind the article is written from an evolutionary perspective, but it has some interesting information nonetheless.