On the Trail of Victor Falkenau

Unearthing Falkenau letters yields insights into key period in America

For two years, every time I visited my mother in California, I cleaned out the closet in the den in her apartment. She had asked me to organize and discard the contents so as not to burden her three children once she was no longer with us. I sorted through postcards, maps, and brochures from my mother’s bicycle trip to Europe in 1954. I viewed water-sta…