Four generations, circa 1894. Clockwise from top, author’s grandmother Sylvia Fink (1891­–1966); Sylvia’s grandmother, Mathilda Barmon Rosen (1842–1915), her great-grandmother Rebecca Goldman Barmon (1804–1896), and her mother, Yetta Rosen Fink (1867–1928). My father kept a cut-glass bourbon bottle on his […]