MEMORY has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. In doing so you are not only recalling the event, you’re also experiencing the atmosphere in which it occurred – the sights, the social setting, the time of day, the emotional tone. Remembering the past is a form of mental time travel.
Mental time travel allows me to leave the writing of this sentence in my study at home overlooking the Hudson river and project myself backward 67 years and eastward across the Atlantic Ocean to…
