The sweep of family history across the generations
It was a signature moment of the turbulent 1960s. Walter, 18, and Dan, 15, were there in Chicago, working as messengers for the Eugene McCarthy campaign.
Two of the Ruby offspring went back to Israel for significant periods.
Stan maintained correspondence with his closest high school and Army buddies, several of whom went on to prominent careers.
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution