The sweep of family history across the generations
Historical blogging makes strange bedfellows. A French jewelry critic and I were both interested in the history of the Clerc jewelry business during the Nazi era
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country