I was working on construction in a high-rise building in lower Manhattan. My partner, “Roidney” Bunion, was 10 years younger than me, an ex-football player and a product of the “tune out and turn on” generation.…
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LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Brussell Sprouts & Billy Joel Brussels sprouts are just about the last thing we harvest from our garden. I can remember many a deer season when I’d walk out in the snow-covered yard to get some. Alice likes to simmer them in chicken broth and later pour some honey on them. Several years ago I drove over to our local nursery to pick up some vegetable seedlings. Alice was weeding when I got home and she…