marshalsandler.com » Global Neighbourhoods: One wing over Siberia

Having reached the ripe old age of “72″! I was lucky to have had an education that made reading a must ! My grandfather a very religious man always stressed education in the Family !  Oh yes i even  forced to attend Hebrew School which was tough but as I look back it added a lot to my life ! In high school we took Spanish and Latin and a lot of Science ! In Detroit Country School by the time we reached 10 th grade we had read a lot of the Great Books ! I was exposed to works John Dos Passo’s and by the 11 grade had even read   the Forsyte Saga ! The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes by John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family. Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly aware of their status as “new money”. The main character, Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a “man of property,” by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions—but this does not succeed in bringing him pleasure.