re: #243 Decatur Deb

They lived there about 1920. By the time I got there in the 50s, Manchester was a no-go zone. If I went past the Aviary park I opened the knife in my pocket. That might have been teenage overcaution.

Yeah Nana and her fam would have been living on Shefield by then. Had no idea it was a tough neighborhood. Dad’s Dad grew up in a more upper class and German neighborhood. You know the Northside, lots of marriages between Germans and Irish. My great aunt and uncle married Irish as well.