Tag: Obituaries

  • What Obituaries Can Teach Us

    What Obituaries Can Teach Us

    by Joan Swirsky, ©2026 (Mar. 8, 2026) — When I was growing up in New Haven, CT., my parents subscribed not only to our local newspaper––The New Haven Register, still extant––but also to The New York Times and the now defunct (since 1966) The New York Herald Tribune. I think I was about eight or…