1948 · 0:41

Where I Started

I was born in the upstairs bedroom of a narrow house on Mercer Street in Erie, in the spring of 1948. My father worked the docks and my mother took in sewing,…

1956 · 0:40

My Brother Daniel

Daniel was two years older and braver at everything. He was the one who climbed the water tower, who talked back to the truant officer, who taught me to ride a…

1965 · 0:32

The Last Ordinary Summer

The summer I turned seventeen I worked the docks beside my father for the first and only time. He did not say much. He never did. But on the last Friday he han…