The author's personal story of her family and of growing up: what the grandchildren should know. Topics: Pittsburgh, the 1929 Stock Market crash, life on a farm, the Princeton Bank and Trust, changing schools 3 times in one year, the book My Virgin Isle, World War II, the death of her mother at age 37, Kirsten Flagstad (opera), crossing the ocean to Britain, gold in Scotland, school in Lausanne, Switzerland during wartime, France, traveling back to America, ice cream in America, college at Vassar.