The Houses Lewis Bowman Left Behind: A Mount Vernon Story

Mount Vernon home designed by Lewis Bowman in 1917. He and his family lived there until 1920.    Bowman was born in 1890 in New York City. H...

  • 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...
  • Introducing Mr. Primrose Avenue
    George Primrose, promotional card, 1880s   In my hometown of Mount Vernon, New York, Primrose Avenue ran less than a mile between two main s...