52 Ancestors – #39 – Grandpa’s Farm

October 21, 2018.Reading time 14 minutes.

My parents were “city folk.” My mother was born in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria and emigrated to the New York City suburb of New Rochelle in 1938. My father, Alan Samuel, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York before moving to New Rochelle where he met, then married my mother. (She actually […]

52 Ancestors – Week #13 – The "Old Homestead"

March 31, 2018.Reading time 16 minutes.

In March 1959 we were living in a two-story garden apartment in New Haven. I had just turned 4. One sister was not quite 3 years-old and the other had just turned 1. My mother was exhausted from running up and down the stairs all day and insisted on moving to a new home – […]