Buy a new house in Hyde Park, Chicago.
- About
- Prologue
- My Ancestors
- Pomes
- The Crusades – 1934
- The Lion Hunt
- The New Year – 1936
- Of what use is life on earth
- The moon was in the heavens
- Spring – 1936
- Betty – 1936
- The Vision
- A Strange Experience
- The Fire
- Afraid to Die
- Devotion
- Counting Sheep – 1937
- Epic in the Morning – 1942
- Letter 1 – 1942
- Letter 2 – 1942
- Pome to Nana from Phil – 1942
- The Steeplechase – 1947
- We’ve got a new house – 1950
- Every ticking minute – 1951
- Thank You Note – 1955
- The Mare – 1956
- Poem on a Turnpike
- Plan Ahead – 1956
- First came the pot – 1956
- Limericks
- Merrily We Roll Along – 1938
- The Quilt
- Our Life Together
- Chapter 1: Thea’s Diary 1943-1960
- 1.1 Together -through 6/5/44
- 1.2 Philip at Sea -through 8/14/45
- 1.3 Together, Again -through 4/30/47
- 1.4 And Baby Makes Three -through 1/3/50
- 1.5 And Baby Makes Four -through 11/8/52
- 1.6 And Baby Makes Five -through 5/1/53
- 1.7 Long Island -through 1/3/55
- 1.8 Offers -through March 1957
- 1.9 Chicago, Here We Come -through 1960
- Chapter 2: Log of Our Travels by Thumb 1943-1944
- Chapter 3: Five Letters 1949-1956
- Chapter 5: Retirement 1991
- Chapter 4: William Prager: Personal Recollections – 1985
- Chapter 6: After 1991
- Chapter 1: Thea’s Diary 1943-1960
- The Seaman
- Letters
- Nonagenarian Natterings
- Contact
- Etc.
When we moved to Chicago in 1957 we lived in a very nice apartment on the 5th floor of a nine-story building right on the IIT campus. That was the easiest commute I ever had, but our two older children had to get to the University of Chicago Lab School 30-some blocks to the south. My department chair, Peter Chiarulli, also lived in the same building and sent his children to the same school. Peter did not own or wish to own a car. So, every day, our four children went to school with my capital (car) and his labor (driving) We each regarded it as a good deal. But our children were growing in size and number and we succumbed to the lure of a new townhouse development being built just a couple of blocks away from the Lab School. So now I was again the commuter and the kids were the pedestrians. Part of the bargain was it was always their obligation to walk, regardless of weather.
Our apartment in Chicago was on the 6th floor. Mom and Dad took their youngest and shortest child into the elevator and saw that the #6 button was the highest one I could reach, so they chose an apartment on that floor, #602.