Don Rose came to the US alone from England in 1908. By 1941 he was one of Philadelphia's best-known newspaper columnists. That year he published his gentle, funny memoir My Own Four Walls, the story of the ramshackle farmhouse he and his wife turned into a home. One of his grandsons, Neil Genzlinger, brings that book back to life.
Don Rose came to the US alone from England in 1908. By 1941 he was one of Philadelphia's best-known newspaper columnists. That year he published his g...