Stories from Lois Keating Learned

Since my grandfather was head of the New York State War Bond drive during WWII, I was expected to contribute to it. My w...

In the late 1930’s and 1940’s, when I was a child, medicine was practiced much differently than today. For one thing...

Some of my fondest childhood memories are the times my mother would play the piano. She had studied music from an early ...

Any music/musicians’ strike in the 1940s is a mystery to me. My mother took me to many musical comedy shows during th...

My parents, William (Bill) Keating and Anne Pierson were born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, attending brother...

As the youngest of six children – four boys and two girls – I guess you’d say I’ve some experience in a ‘mixed...

Near the end of my stay in Japan, one of the trustees asked me if I’d like to use his motor scooter during the spring ...

About 1943, my town got its first supermarket, the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, forever known as the A & P. Before ...

From the age of 7 until I was 16 and had a driver’s license, my transportation was relegated to a bicycle. At 12, I wa...