The Photograph That Started the Question-The Story Behind a July 4th Photograph and the American Dream it Captured.

When I was cleaning out my parents’ Long Island home a few years ago in advance of selling the 1955 shingled ranch house I grew up in, long-lost remnants of my otherwise well-documented childhood appeared as though hidden in a

Picturing the Past -A Century Old Photo and The Stories It tells.

In 1926, while flaming youth roared and thousands mourned the death of Rudolph Valentino, my grandparents, Sadie and Arthur Joseph, were overjoyed at the birth of their second daughter, Betty Francine, my mother. Always a joyous Bastille Day Birthday, this

Picture of Anguish

Their anguish is visceral. The searing torment of two young girls is captured for eternity. Though from vastly different times and places the feel is eerily similar. We cannot look away. We must not look away. America’s pain is immortalized

Anthony Weiner’s Kodak Moment

  “The Snapshots you’ll want Tomorrow you must take Today,” declares a Kodak ad from 1935. “What a rush of memories a snapshot like this brings. You live again the precious hours-all the associations come back…” When a former mayoral