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This Week in History: Congressman Roscoe Conkling: The Union must be preserved! By Frank Tomaino © O-D FILE PHOTO There was plenty of fresh air for passengers in open electric trolley cars in Utica in the late 19th century. That was fine when the weather was pleasant, but not so fine when it rained and the weather was chilly. The late Robert G. Gurley wrote in his 1964 booklet – “Here Comes the Trolley!” – that side curtains kept some of the passengers dry during rainstorms, but the motorman wasn’t as fortunate. He got wet. On summer days when all the seats were filled, passengers were permitted to stand on running boards along the sides of the trolley cars. Electric trolleys first appeared in Utica in 1890. The last one ran on May 12, 1941. All were replaced by motor buses.
“Remember only that I was innocent
and, just like you, mortal on that day,
I, too, had had a face marked by rage, by pity and joy,
quite simply, a human face!”
Benjamin Fondane, Exodus
Murdered at Auschwitz, 1944
Those who have visited Yad Vashem might have read the poem on the wall of the Name Hall. As we commemorate the Yom HaShoah or the Holocaust Memorial Day, the name of a Chinese lady has been lingering in my mind Nadine Hwang with many different identities: cross-dresser, lawyer, horse rider, car driver, pilot, colonel, polo, cricket and ice hockey player, lesbian cosmopolitan, spy against Nazis, internee in a Nazi camp for women, etc. Her life is probably one of the most forgotten stories in modern Chinese history and till now almost nothing was written about her in Chinese language…