Last week, browsing in Bookwise in Boca Raton, I picked up This Old Man, a collection of pieces (and letters) by Roger Angell. Angell, a careerist at The New Yorker, is the son of Katherine Angell, the New Yorker editor who married E.B. White.
He is also the brother of Nancy, who married a biology professor at Lafayette College and sat three pews in front of my family at Trinity Episcopal Church in Easton, PA. At Christmas and Easter the list of people in whose honor the flowers on the altar had been given always included “Katherine and E.B. White” and, starting in my college years, I thrilled at the sight of those literary names on the insert in our church bulletin.
