So I was born in 1949, right?

And about 1953, I'm in Levittown.

That's where a lot of GIs went.

My father is from Brooklyn.

My mother is from Englewood, New Jersey.

And they met in New England at Holy Cross College when my father was in the Navy an officer training

school and my mother was a student at Boston University and there was a social

what's what they used to call them that then at Harvard and they met there and

they subsequently got married of course That's why I'm here.

So they moved out to Levittown, and in 1951, I was two, and then my sister was born a short

time later. I can remember Christmas when I was about three. And the vision I have is I'm

sitting on the stairs in my Leavitt home. And the Leavitt Homes are tiny. There were two bedrooms

and a little kitchen, a little living room. That's it, one bathroom.

And the tree, excuse me, the tree was in the living room.

And I was upstairs because my father had finished the upstairs,

and I had a little bedroom up there.

So very early, I got up, just an urchin, about three or four,

and I sat on the end and I looked at the tree and all the presents.

And that's my first recollection of Christmas.

Of course I believe in Santa Claus and this and that.

Now subsequently Christmas in Levitown was a big deal.

There were carolers.

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