When my mother was growing up,she and her whole family would go to dances.These would be held in the schoolhouse,or sometimes in a farmhouse with a big enough front room.Young and old would be in attendance.Someone would play the piano--the ...

When Peter was a baby ,his mother had carried him across some mountains whose name Greta kept forgetting , in order to get out of Soviet Czechoslovakia into western Europe . There were other people of course .Peter’s father was intended to...