"Tales from the Old Oak Table" is a memoir told through a series of heart-felt, close-up and personal essays written by the last surviving member of a not so ordinary nuclear family. It chronicles a journey from Austria in the 1880s and 90s and turn-of-the-century Russia - to New York City in the 1920s, to upstate New York farm life during the depression, to the once nurturing working class community of the Bronx before it underwent dramatic changes in the 1960's - to a glimpse of life after the Bronx. The author has listened to, witnessed and been party to countless experiences and stories...