Last heard from, Sid was planning his trip to spend the holidays with his family in Buffalo - and to spend time with Elsie. So I wasn't surprised to find a festive Christmas card (shown above) in the next envelope in the box. What was a surprise was what was on the inside: Who the…
Well, the election is over and now what will happen? In 1932, that is. I so wish we were at that point right now. Don't you wish we had a fast forward button through the next six months or so? But alas, we must fully live these troubling times in order to get to the…
The next letter that Sid pens, in mid October 1932, strikes me as so extraordinarily timely for readers in 2020 that it is hard to believe that more than 85 years have passed since it was mailed. How can something written in a completely different time speak so directly to our current situation in America?…
Sid’s next letter arrives in June, with the news that he won’t get away to Buffalo as soon as he had hoped. Life was very busy and it seemed he wouldn’t be heading towards Elsie until after he taught summer school at Rutgers. It was probably not welcome news to Elsie, especially when Sid didn’t…
El and Sid ~ A Slow Romance 