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Saturday, August 8, 2026
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Delivered by penlight in a stuck elevator
A jammed elevator, a crowning mother, and Nurse Dorothy — the boy's middle name is Otis to this day.
Fresh recordings
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Resilience
Sit at ten
A note passed glove to glove down the line, and four hundred women set down their tools at once.
Betty
Resilience
English off the fish-wrap
Nine years old, fresh from Calabria, Rosa taught herself English from the newspaper the fishmonger wrapped.
Rosa
Wisdom
A thousandth of an inch
Thirty-two years at the tool-and-die bench taught Walter the pride of making a thing fit exactly right.
Walter
Adventure
Three days in the white
The blizzard of '57 took the herd; Harold rode three days on coffee and stubbornness and brought back all but nine.
Harold
Wartime
The night the platoon sang
A radioman in 1967 Vietnam, Jimmy recalls one hour of bad singing that made the war forget them.
Jimmy
Adventure
Two sewers deep
Stickball till the streetlights, dodging trolleys on DeKalb — Frank's Brooklyn boyhood.
Frank