A Librarian's Journey

  Postcard of Angel Island, 1915 Hung Yu-Feng arrived at Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, on a foggy September day in 1919. His unlikely ...

  • The Wartburg Orphanage
    Postcard of the Wartburg Orphanage, around 1914 A few weeks ago I read a crushing article, “The Lost Children of Tuam,” in the New Yo...
  • The Principal
    Martin H. Traphagen School, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1950s Sometimes on the verge of sleep, I imagine myself back in elementary school in Mo...
  • Story of Henry Littlefield
      During the 1960s when my brother and I were growing up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., our parents and their friends occasionally mentioned Henry L...