Don Rose came to the U.S. alone from England in 1908, when he was
18, entering through Ellis Island like countless other immigrants.
By 1941 he was one of Philadelphia's best-known newspaper
columnists. That year he published his gentle, funny memoir My Own
Four Walls, the story of the ramshackle farmhouse he and his wife,
Marjorie, bought in 1918 and turned into a home for themselves and
their 12 children. One of his grandsons, Neil Genzlinger-himself a
journalist at the New York Times-here brings that book back to
life, with the original illustrations, a century after his
grandfather signed the deed. Part diary, part DIY manual, Rose's
unsung classic is a tale of smoky fireplaces, leaky ceilings and
unruly gardens, at a time when refrigerators were newfangled and
suburban homes were furnished at country auctions. Most of all it
is a story of how one man, with good-natured persistence, slowly
put down roots in his adopted country.
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