I grew up thinking that my great grandfather had arrived as an Austrian boy by way of Canada in 1912. Now we know that he was actually a Polish Jew from Buchovina who changed his name 3 times in getting here and he did it all at somewhere between 9 and 13 years old. He came over on the Mount Temple which had an interesting and short history of its own.
In the 20s he ended up working for the Purple Gang in Detroit as a diver unstrapping kegs from boat hulls on the Detroit river.
THAT is an incredible story!!! Editorial, please.
Now that was a job involved deeply in the public health sector. My daughter in law kills mosquitos for example ~ in mass ~ HUGE ~ MONSTROUS quantities. Without her everybody around here would have malaria. Without those kegs all the folks with problems treatable (in that day) through ‘self medication’ would have been at lost ends.