This was a picture of Herman Ruthenberg (left) and "Pop" Rosetti (right) and Mr. Rosetti's doberman pinscher in the front yard of the house in East Hampton, New York with Gardner's Bay just beyond the beach grass. This was in about 1968.
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
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Known for the famous New York City which is home to Wall Street and is one of the wealthiest cities in the world, New York is also well known for Ellis Island where many of our ancestors immigrated in...