The sweep of family history across the generations
Our Paechter family prospered in the Vistula delta town of Tiegenhof. But their roots probably go back further in west Pomerania.
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