High Society

摘要

He was 11 the year his family moved from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to the farmland of Long Island, and what Alfred Merrill remembers from the first day was the sky. It was alive with airplanes. In 1936, Merrill's new home, Hicksville, New York, was both in the middle of nowhere and at the forefront of aviation. Farming was still king on Long Island—potatoes and ducks—but flying was coming on strong, even during the Depression. In the skies over his new house, Al Merrill could see it all.