Course 2: New York at Work and Play in the 20th Century
Fall 2002

Session 2: Guest Speaker Philip Hoose, author of We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History

Phil tells the story of how he came to write about the child survivor of the Alamo

A story of children and work:
Maggie Deluca tells the story of her grandmother, who as a 13 year old drove a truck of bootlegged liquor to a welcoming New Mexico town in the late 1920’s.

Isabel Torres and Martha Mancini get their copy of “We Were There Too” signed by Phil. Martha tells of Phil of a Nicholas Mohr story she read with her class. The story highlights the plight of a Hispanic girl in the 1930’s in New York.