The most poignant stories involved the families of immigrants. “This watch was important enough for someone to put it in a small bag of possessions to emigrate,” Kivel says. “It was one of the very ...
We were rooting around in the family safe and came across Dad’s old Bulova wristwatch. It had been Mom’s wedding day gift to Dad in 1946 and it was dead as a doornail. We braced ourselves: Restoring a ...