Beginning in 1940 , my mother, Esther Kaminsky (Brooklyn College alumni 2010, page 19) and her twelve year old urchin, began a top secret trip into our nation’s genealogical origin, Adler meaning “Eagle”.... the source of our divinity across the pond to the Magna Carta in 1066, ricocheting with the New World’s Founding Fathers.
Haunting the public libraries : the Big Apple’ s 42nd Street, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn College’s Gideonse, our odyssey began.
President Harry S. Truman, Generals Omar Bradley, George Catlett Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Senators, Representatives.... dignitaries like Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, “Wild Bill” Donovan. Bernard Baruch, Albert Einstein ( an unsigned German dictation), Rabbi Pool, Wendell Willkie, Harold Stassen in response to the “Name Detective’s” inquiry about the origin of their surnames.
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black’s death bed note to us in California. The American Red Cross for bedside visits to hospitalized GI’s in the Staten Island Long Island area.
Having been brought down to earth by 9/11, not unlike December 7, living the dream across Campus Road....Midwood High at Brooklyn College Enter to grow in body mind and spirit Depart to serve better your God your country and your fellow man.
Thus began a quest of seven decades ...searching for a depositary for my mother and father’s legacy. A quintessential joy in having President Truman’s library accept twenty eight letters from the “What’s in a name?” correspondence, June 29, 2009.....
And our wife, Estelle, ecstatic on becoming a “G G”, a great grandmother, July 21...a 7 pound 7 ounce baby boy named Blake in San Diego...., his grandmother Lori, his mother Tara.
