Growing Up with S&T:A Family HistoryIt's no exaggeration to say that this magazine began as a family affair

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In early October 1941 a husband and wife barely into their 30s drove their Ford convertible from New York City to Boston with a 2-week-old daughter in a basket on the back seat next to her nearly 3-year-old brother. They moved the family into a home in Arlington, Massachu-setts, and they moved their tiny company, Sky Publish-ing, to Harvard College Observatory (HCO), where they quickly produced the inaugural November 1941 issue of Sky & Telescope. The parents were Charlie and Helen (Spence) Federer, and the children were the authors of this reminiscence, Barbara and Tony Federer.