How great we were (but aren't anymore?)

How great we were (but aren't anymore?)

One of the duties I sadly inherited but happily undertake is selecting items for each week’s Memories column in the paper. I don’t do it with the same vigor or insight as did my mother, who would have turned 100 this year. Truth is, I occasionally cheat, selecting things she previously identified as newsworthy when she was running the column, as she did up until age 98. Still, I revel — as she did, and you should — in the wonderful history of M…