This book is the story of a thoughtful Jewish- American child growing up in Troy New York in the early fifties of the twentieth century. His picture of this now distant world is given in one hundred -twenty short chapters -each an independent story or sketch. He tells the story of his family, his hard-working businessman father, his responsible and caring housewife mother, his adventurous brother, his kind sister. He meets and relates to a rich cast of colorful characters, not only in his First Street neighborhood and community, but in School 10 and Sharei Tefilah Shul, at the baseball park,...