innocence of childhood

Stories of youth and innonence throughout the years. 

Story Portfolio

Eilertsens by the lake
  • Oct 02, 1952

Ed was the rector at Saint Martin's By the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. The family was raised in towns around the lake region west of…

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Green Valley Drive—our exurban childhood
  • Aug 13, 2017

Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.

from Ruby Family History Project

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Our family during the Nazi years in Berlin
  • Aug 13, 2017

During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.

from Ruby Family History Project

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Sputnik in the backyard
  • Aug 13, 2017

Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.

from Ruby Family History Project

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Stan at Brant Lake
  • Aug 13, 2017

Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.

from Ruby Family History Project

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Third Generation Rubys
  • Aug 13, 2017

First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.

from Ruby Family History Project

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Twyla's childhood
  • Jun 26, 2021

Outlooks of a pre-millennial

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