The view from here.

Description:

Memoir of New Yorker art critic Robert Coates. Follows Coate's along as he and his mother travel the country to follow pater's mining and engineering adventures. This is a generally happy book about a boy growing into manhood. No sturm or drang. Not a lot of details about the early New Yorker. I doubt I ever read any of Coate's art criticism, but I enjoyed this book. Several chapters detail Coates' early cars and their eccentricities. I imagine old car lovers would appreciate more than I.

subjects: Gold Mining,  Memoir,  boyhood,  inventors,  small families,  old cars,  automotive history,  lost generation,  Yale

People: Robert M. Coates (1897-1973)

Places: Cripple Creek,  New York,  Paris,  New Haven.

Times: 1905-1930