Tag Archives: travel

Do You Know Where You Are Going?

New York City, 1946.  A family gathers at the Castleholm Restaurant to celebrate a 70th birthday. They are all there, everyone who has immigrated from Bavaria, Germany since the early 1900s.  In less than a half century, they have started … Continue reading

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Crossing Carmine Street

After watching “A Complete Unknown” recently, I had an itch to go back to Greenwich Village, NY–particularly the West Village, where my grandmother and great-grandmother lived. Standing in front of Our Lady of Pompeii yesterday…the church where my parents were … Continue reading

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