I Hope I’ll Do Well
My computer is back in hand and we can continue our time traveling! Let’s take a trip back to the fall or winter of 1943. The last letter you saw … Continue reading
Stand Up, Brooklyn!
I still don’t have a computer to put up a new letter but I thought I would tide everyone over with some other Brooklyn reading. First, a thank you to … Continue reading
Lost Memory
Hello, if there is anyone still out there. I haven’t been able to post anything lately because my computer crashed and I lost my hard drive. I think it is … Continue reading
A Musical Interlude from South Pacific
I wouldn’t say that I’m big into musicals but I recently went to see South Pacific with my mom. The story line was just too relavent to this blog to ignore. So … Continue reading
Cawffee Tawlk
A nice little article/tv clip about chronicling New York accents (Thanks Maher!): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11132537 I studied Oral History, in part, because I missed hearing my grandpa’s accent (not a NY one) … Continue reading
Food for thought
I’m struggling to write this post because I’m not letting myself write about what I really want to explore, the fight that is building between my grandparents in these letters … Continue reading
My fat daddy
This is the entirety of the letter that Sylvia wrote to Alex in August of 1945 (the first page was featured here). Since this is such a long letter I … Continue reading
Who’s On First?
Darling, We are on our way to N.O. and sure Uncle Sam is treating us O.K. We are receiving an air conditioned Pullman and we slept in the sleeping car … Continue reading
Hiroshima
This is a letter written August 7, 1945, one day after the nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Having just passed the 65th anniversary of this event I wanted to … Continue reading
Any old god, I don’t care.
This letter was written by Sylvia in May of 1942, earlier than most of what we’ve read so far. It is very honest and forthright. It was written over a … Continue reading
