From Riga to Rochester

From Riga to Rochester

He is my grandfather. His Russian passport reads Hyman Osband. It is 1907, the year he has chosen to leave Riga and the Baltic behind and make his way to America and a new life. A good time for a young man to renounce the Czar, and escape the promise of conscription...
Leaving Leeds

Leaving Leeds

The Segelin family leaves Russia in 1895 for a better, safer life in Leeds, England, a center of clothing manufacturing. It will be a stopover of nearly a decade, before America beckons. Rochester, NY will be their destination. It is one of the top five cities in...
Mimi Takes the Stairs – About Mimi

Mimi Takes the Stairs – About Mimi

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, my gaze was always on New York City, that amazing metropolis 250 miles to the southeast. Everything fashionable started there and it usually took two years for a style to travel upstate. Nothing was instant. It was life lived...