At the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular! With my mother!

Last year my mother gave me the complete family archives, including but not limited to photographs, legal documents, newspaper clippings, and random ephemera. It was all jumbled together, with no distinctions between the Lavender, Laakso, Frederickson, McGinty, or Nyland clans.

She is visiting for a week, and wants to help me put it all in logical order. Today we sat down to start sifting through the boxes. This is the bracelet the hospital put on my wrist (after they accidentally switched me with my cousin, but that is a different story) the day I was born.

I’ve been promised that the accompanying newspaper story is somewhere in the archives.

At the Annex with Byron and Zane. I didn’t share!

At the cider festival with Pat, Roxane, Roberta & the gang.

Morris dancers / Orchard Street / Lower East Side / Manhattan / wtf

Details of the interior, Stettheimer Dollhouse. Currently on display at MCNY.

“I Scrubs” – title of photograph and answer this girl provided when asked her occupation. Jacob Riis.

Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Jacob Riis. Currently on display at the Museum of the City of New York.