Tales Worth Sharing

Personal stories bring family history to life.

- Tom R. Kovach

Raising two daughters has given me plenty of excuse to tell stories—some funny, some sad and some of interest only to the family. My mother told me a few; my father, the rest.

I’ve always been fascinated by one story about my father as a teenager. He traveled by himself from Hungary when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was supposed to sail from Hamburg, Germany, to England and, once there, get a third-class ticket to sail in steerage on the