05/23/2025
A privilege to visit my mother's dear friend and former teaching colleague, 93 year-old Marlene Wertheim in Livingston Manor New York who escaped N**i occupied Austria at the age of 7, taught school and English as a second language in Harlem and Long Island, then moved upstate to be farmers with her husband Bud! "100 head of milking cows, a thousand chickens... a toddler at my feet -- it was hard work." Bud Wertheim wasn't really a farmer, but a listed artist! Canvas, steel sculptures, , ... not just puppets actually... at the end of my visit, JIM HENSON'S name came up in casual conversation! Bud Wertheim built the first and Jim Henson was a friend and frequent visitor in that same living room! On the drive home, my mother recalled a picnic lunch with the Wertheims and their friend