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Great Depression Years
I didn’t realize there was a depression until I was in grade school. Some of the children were given boxes of milk daily. I asked my mothe...
Red Light Seamstress
It was just about the turn of the century (1899, not 1999) when my mother was walking home from school when she was in the fourth or fifth g...
A Psychological Incident
When Warren was fourteen years of age, psychiatric hospitals were commonly called, ”the crazy house”. To Warren, they seemed irrelevant,...
A SUNDAY IN DECEMBER
A SUNDAY IN DECEMBER As the curtain descends on Act One. Bright lights illuminate the gloom in the auditorium. My feet reach for the har...
Visit to Dachau
It was spring, 1973. I was 19. My sister and I were visiting Munich. We wanted to take the day trip to Dachau and inquired at the Munich tra...
Landing On Jones Beach In A Sn
As flight weather forecaster for American Airlines at LaGuardia Field, I was working the midnight-to-8 shift of a January night in 1946. I h...
On Commuting
On Commuting Living in Pleasantville, New York, meant commuting to work via The New York Central Railroad to Grand Central Station six da...
Poliomyelitis Experience
It was the summer of 1943. Poliomyelitis was rampant across the U.S. Grace Hospital in Hutchinson KS established a whole floor to accommoda...
A Warm Memory of Cold Winter N
ca - mid-1930s Although Marilyn, Buddy and Jeannie were only summertime “country kids”, there were occasions during the colder months ...
About A Delightful Book
I had intended at the outset to write a one-paragraph book review. But upon further consideration, decided, “Oh, what the hell”. And so,...
Charlie and whitey, the Rooste
Circa 1939 Charlie arrived home on a lovely late Summer Friday afternoon. There was a gentle breeze and it was not too hot. He decided it wo...
Charlie DeMar Stories - Part 1
(ca 1937) When you come right down to it, sometimes a most ordinary man can be at the same time, a most remarkable man. The following stori...
