Country Roots and City Dogs (First Person)
I grew up in Port Jervis, New York, a country town (pop. 9000) in the upper Delaware Valley during the years following World War II and spent a good deal of my childhood on my great uncles’ chicken farm, which has since been developed into a swanky equestrian estate. Its 80 acres are about the same size as Cesar Chavez Park, which might explain why I feel so at home there. -more-