First Things RSS Feed - Stephen Vincent https://www.firstthings.com/author/stephen-vincent en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:50:56 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/stephen-vincent 60 A Small-Town New Yorker https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2009/01/a-small-town-new-yorker https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2009/01/a-small-town-new-yorker Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 As a boy in the 1960s, I walked to school, knew my neighbors, could point out the building where my father was born and, a few blocks away, the place my mother grew up (they met at a parish social). I ran in parks with friends, hung out in the local boys’ club after school, played ball, and once risked entering the abandoned home known as “the haunted house.”

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