Author Archives: AlexLevy

After so many weeks away, it was good to be home in Teaneck, and to get back to the serious business of raising a family in the suburbs.  Besides our two children (Melissa wasn’t born yet), we had also acquired … Continue reading →

Tucumcari was an unexpected stop on our way to Gallup, New Mexico, where there was to be a rodeo which Linda and I thought would be fun for the children and our teenage babysitter.  However, before we got to Gallup, … Continue reading →

Besides Forest Lawn and Universal Studios, while in Los Angeles and because we had children on this trip, we also visited Disneyland, a pleasant enough experience of which I remember nothing, except for the crowds and Cinderella’s Castle.  I guess … Continue reading →

No long family trip is complete without a vehicle malfunction.  In this case, on our way from the Grand Canyon, our new Buick stations wagon’s water pump gave out, and had to be replaced.  The event took place in Williams, … Continue reading →

We left Yellowstone and drove to Grand Teton National Park (only about 10 miles away), by way of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Highway.  The country around Jackson Hole is a magnificent landscape of buckrail fences, grassy plains, snow-covered … Continue reading →

One of the large debates animating animal lovers in the 70’s was what to do about the bears in both Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks.  I believe that in both places there were brown bears (more commonly known as “grizzlies,”) … Continue reading →

Our cross country trip besides being thoroughly enjoyable was also somewhat educational, particularly as it helped me develop an appreciation of the vast wealth of the Rockefeller family.  At the time of this trip I knew that the Rockefeller name … Continue reading →

The “profit” of three years of work and the sale of Apple Hill, all three thousand dollars of it, went into our cross country trip. Linda has always had an enthusiasm for camping, an enthusiasm which at first I did … Continue reading →

The idea of moving to the suburbs was in the air in the sixties. It even had a name: White Flight. Linda and I just resisted it as long as seemed sensible, which was the point at which we came … Continue reading →

Linda and I were married on April 15th, 1962, at the Delmonico Hotel. I liked the idea of being married in the same place that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt had their wedding reception (with President Theodore Roosevelt in attendance), but … Continue reading →