It was a Friday night in the early 1970s and William Thrush, as he often did, had taken his family to Zern’s Farmers Market, a large indoor-outdoor market near Boyertown, now closed. ”I would take the ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...