Halfway through February of 1958, the daily temperature had rarely been above freezing. The 11th started the morning at 5 degrees. Icebreaking boats made their way through the harbor, smashing paths to free ice-locked boats. When the possibility of snow was reported on Valentine’s Day, “the Weather Bureau said it could give no estimated snow…
Marjorie Hurwitz loved baseball. She had season tickets to San Francisco Giants games when they played at Candlestick Park. Marjorie herself played tennis and bowled. She loved playing Bridge and hiking. I know these things from her 2023 obituary. What I do not know about Marjorie is what brought Marjorie and her husband Elihu to…
Suzy Arbogast contributed a peculiarly-named recipe to the “Cooking the Severn Way… Supplement” cookbook. Entitled “Dick Arbogast’s Male Liberated Pie,” it called for condensed milk, Cool Whip, and a can of pie filling, layered in in a pre-baked pie shell. At the end of the recipe, Suzy wrote “Preparation time: 8 min. Total Calories: 10,000.”…