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Circa 1939 Charlie arrived home on a lovely late Summer Friday afternoon. There was a gentle breeze and it was not too h...

(ca 1937) When you come right down to it, sometimes a most ordinary man can be at the same time, a most remarkable man....

She awoke, startled, to an unfamiliar sound. The clock on the nightstand read 3:20. There was that sound again. Somethin...

“Do you want to know what makes me laugh?” Jeanne Peck asked, wielding a sheet of paper. “This makes me laugh” a...

Any child in the New York City neighborhood in which I grew up would have had to be very sick indeed to have been taken ...

Ca 1925 – or so This is one of those well-worn, beloved family stories (all families have them) that is, with great r...

The year: 1945 or so. The place: The Bronx, New York. A strange phenomenon was taking place. Throngs of otherwise quie...

It was 7 AM Christmas morning. A light snow had fallen during the candlelight service the evening before — just enough...

During the Depression Years of the 1930’s ordinary working-class folks (no matter the color of the collar) had very li...

Among Charlie’s many and varied friends were Patsy and Tony, who owned a Bar and Grille down in Golden’s Bridge. At ...

Ca. 1936 This is a story about a Boston Terrier named Mitzi. Actually, it had been intended that her name be “Misty�...

…. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. I Corinthians, 13:13 A...