Lost Diary in the City Section
Be sure to check out the terrific lead story in yesterday’s City section, entitled “Speak, Memory.” The article’s writer had discovered a long-lost diary in an old steamer trunk that was being tossed from the basement of her building. (And why we never find old steamer trunks in our building, we’ll never know.) After some detective work, she learned that it once belonged to an upper-class teenager named Florence Wolfson who lived on Riverside Dr. in the 1930s. The diary’s contents provide a great record of ’30s New York, and include mentions of Florence’s various romances with men and women, including her crush on the openly-lesbian actress Eva Le Gallienne.
Speak, Memory [NY Times]
