Philly Tales

I was very fortunate that by the time I was five years old, our family bought a TV. It was an RCA. We were not the first TV in the neighborhood. A ...

Valentine's Day was as an important holiday for kids as it was for adults.

I was dumbstruck and couldn’t speak. My mom walked over to me and said, “Didn’t you hear me?” She felt my head like she always did when trying to determine if I had a fever.

In 1951, we lived in a small row home on Wishart Street in the section of Philadelphia known as Kensington.

My first memory was when I was just three or four years old. It was when the family got a puppy. Her name was Bonnie, and she was a funny little re...

One cannot fully comprehend how the synapses of the human brain work, but the result is often magical. It certainly was for me on this day.

One Thanksgiving I will never forget! My grandmother and mother were both great cooks. Year after year the made the best holiday dinners. One Thank...

My mom used to burn a Bayberry candle on Christmas Eve. It was supposed to bring you good luck if it burned all night. One year my grandfather put ...

(A fictitious account of Gerry Amato, the main character in Mercy Row Retribution based on author Harry Hallman's experiences) My first recollectio...