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Lighting the Lamps is about growing up poor in New York City in the '20s and '30s, with a Scottish-born mother who took in illegal immigrant "boarders" and a father who came up from a Southern chain-gang. It's about getting polio yet participating fully in the tenement and street life of the Depression; encountering "the Desert Experience" in many NYC faith communities; and meeting extraordinary people through a great variety of jobs (from the days when a skilled buildings-engineer supervisor might be illiterate and "manual labor" included amazing feats of skill).
Fred Garel's "Lighting the Lamps" is noteworthy as a very down to earth memoir of growing up in New York City during the 1920's and 1930's. Fred makes no apologies - and he shouldn't - for his boyish pranks and adventures. The fact that Fred was crippled with polio at an early age, makes his later adventures even more amazing. Those were interesting times to be a boy growing up in New York City. The book's cover - showing shacks in Central Park during the great depression - indicates well what a different age it was.
