Mostly, they had White Leghorn chickens from Leghorn, Italy ( Livorno).Golly I’m smart.  Lol.  These chickens lay white eggs and live a nice, long life. Broilers, on the other hand, (“ain’t…

Why would a thirteen year old city boy from the Big Apple spend several summer weeks at his Aunt and Uncles’ chicken farm 75 miles upstate ( in the country)? …

What did a young lad from 10 to 17 do for play time in New York City in the fifties?   Come Saturday morning most young lads left their house at…

What else has changed since the wonderful ‘50’s besides accessibility of baseball players.   One of my good friend’s dad was a managing editor of the New York Daily Mirror,…

It’s 1952.  I’m 13 years old. It’s New York City (not Manhattan but Flushing in the borough of Queens).  We had trees and even woods. I was in 7th or…