It would be perfectly fine for the 12-year old girl to ride the trolley across the 225 th Street Bridge. By 1940, she knew the city well ...

  Inwood neighborhood, northern Manhattan, 1930s.  https://myinwood.net/map-oval/  On the day before my mother died, she lay fully dressed a...

Endpapers of Parlez-vous Francais? A First Book in French There’s a book that my mother has kept since the summer of 1940 when she rece...

My mother (left) poses with a friend on Sherman Avenue, Inwood, Manhattan, mid-1930s. My mother is living in a corner of her chil...