Although I was born in Portland, Maine, most of my teen years were spent in Redding, Connecticut. New York City was just over the horizon and with an hour train ride I would find myself in Grand Central Station. Moving to Maine I still continued to enjoy trips to Manhattan. My mother was a volunteer at the New York Public Library, and loved all the people that she encountered. She died in 2013 and it was about then that my interest in New York faded.
