THE HILLMANNS OF BROOKLYN
CHAPTER 34
1927
Summer Vacation
Hinsdale, Massachusetts and
Fort Ticonderoga
Marian beaming in her Erasmus sweater.
The Hillmanns visited Fort Tionderoga in 1927. How many high school graduates today know what happened at Fort Ticonderoga or where it is?
What percentage of people know Ethan Allen as anything other than a furniture store?
How many of us believe in the concept of great men? Can you name any great man?
Let us leave the arena of deep thought and journey on to relaxation.
In 1927 a portable, wind-up phonograph started at $14.95.
In 1927 Stalin took over Russia. His Communist Party then condemned all deviation from the party line.
Not to be a downer, but while the Hillmanns enjoyed their Summer vacation, one thousand people a week were dying in Britain from a flu epidemic. Thank God for antibiotics.
In 1927 Harvard professors invented the iron lung, which allowed people with polio to breathe.
Pan American Airways was formed and took its first flight from Key West to Havana.
I think there are Hillmanns in this group, besides Herman, Rose and Marian. I have been blessed, though Ancestry.com to have met descendants of Herman's sister. Herman only had one sister. I would like to make contact with an avid genealogist on the Hillmann side, descended from a generation above Herman.
Hillmanns albums come out on Tuesdays. Next week it's 1928.
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