Tangled Trees

 

  • 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...
  • What the Widow Nolen Left Behind, Part 2
      W. W. Nolen, 1910 (Harvard University Archives) From his third-floor window, William Whiting Nolen watched the twentieth century arrive at...
  • The Little Time Traveler
      Last fall, my adorable grandson, halfway between two and three years, was finally tall enough to look at the family pictures arranged on a...