Title: The view from here
Description: Memoir of New Yorker art critic Robert Coates. Follows Coate's along as he and his mother travel the country to follow pater's mining and engineering adventures. This is a generally happy book about a boy growing into manhood. No sturm or drang. Not a lot of details about the early New Yorker. I doubt I ever read any of Coate's art criticism, but I  enjoyed this book.

Several chapters detail Coates' early cars and their eccentricities. I imagine old car lovers would appreciate more than I.
Subjects: Gold Mining, Memoir, boyhood, inventors, small families, old cars, automotive history, lost generation, Yale
Places: Cripple Creek, New York, Paris, New Haven.
People: Robert M. Coates (1897-1973)
Time periods: 1905-1930