Max arrives in America, first coming to the small town of Whitman Massachusetts, near Boston, where he hoped to find work as a skilled womens' tailor.
NARRATOR: Lisa, backgrounding/commenting. Whitman, Massachusets, is a lovely little town that grew out of the American Revolution, replete with eighteenth century dated buildings and clapboard farmhouses. Not much is different in Whitman today from seventy years ago. The population and ethnography is about the same; it is only in its genesis from being a self-contained leader in the shoe industry to a more amorphic suburb of Boston that its status has changed. History lives in Whitman; it is memorialized, preserved, and intensely revered.