Helped

The first night in the dark, cold barrack of the Alamo was the hardest.Adina De Zavala had no bed or even a chair to sleep on. Rats skittered nearby. The electricity and telephone lines had been cut.But years of effort, of obsession, had…

It was day two with no electricity when I sat with Mrs. Green, my landlady. We sat in the shade of her house across from her shop, Owens Deli, which has been a fixture in our neighborhood for over 80 years. In the days of…