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     Today more people than ever are immigrating to America in hopes of finding a better life.  The children of these immigrant families may face many of the same unknowns that Ella encountered when she and her family came to America.  Like Ella, they face a new school with a…

      Riding a bicycle along the level towpath by the canal is pleasant, but passing a lock always makes me want to stop and watch.  The canal in Ella's day was only four feet deep, but it has been deepened and widened several times since then.  The pictures on the…

     You may have been wondering about the picture on my Home Page.  That is a view of the Hudson River taken when I was hiking in the Catskill's.  Ella and her family took a steamboat up the Hudson River and would have passed this spot.  I like to think…