August Lake

 

  • 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...
  • 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 Y...
  • "R" -- a Story about Sal Salasin
    Frontispiece of a book of poems by Salasin, published in 1988 In January 1969, about 400 students at my alma mater occupied the admin...