Home movie

My brother Mark did a great thing this morning by uploading a very interesting family movie to YouTube. The video is a collection of several films taken in and around Summit, New Jersey, (my grandfather's home town), between approximately 1915 and 1935. The footage was assembled by cousins with talent for such things and distributed at our last reunion in Summit.

This is a fascinating look at one slice of America during that period of our history. It's wonderful to see my great-grandparents in their homes, their eight children at various ages, and my grandfather as a dashing young man shaking hands with his family before taking off from a field in his open cockpit aircraft.