I grew up in Melrose, Massachusetts, a beautiful city north of Boston. This postcard shows Main Street, Melrose in the early 1900s. Almost all of the buildings are still there. The trolley tracks are gone, and the tower on City Hall (on the left) was removed long ago; the rest of the building remains. My first paying job was at Melrose Public Library, just a few blocks from this intersection. I worked in the Children's and the Reference Departments and that's how I learned about children's books, and research.