I grew up in a time when Americans took pride in their ingenuity and know-how, a time when quality, integrity, and reputation counted, one in which your relationships with others in your business network and community were critical to both your industry’s health and your own income.
Read MoreI grew up in Prince's Bay, on the south shore of Staten Island, half a century ago. My recollections of the neighboring town of Tottenville, where I attended high school, was of a quiet marine village at the southernmost tip of New York City—surrounded by water and centered on a Main Street populated by small retail shops and professional businesses.
Read MoreOn the first of June 2016—one of those rare days invoked by the American poet James Russell Lowell (who just happened to be a friend of the Tottenville portrait artist, William Page)—I and my colleagues boarded the Staten Island Ferry for a visit to Tottenville--a village on the last stop on the Staten Island Rapid Transit line, at New York City's and New York State's southernmost tip.
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