Rescue Me

Jeff, still taller than his younger brother, c. 1958, Fort Ticonderoga, New York

When I was in the second grade, I ran away from home. I told a classmate at school of my plan, and at the end of the day, when the school bus from P.S. 18 dropped us off a mile east along Hillside Avenue, in front of the Bell Park Manor Terrace garden apartments, I avoided t…