Peter Tillers' Home Page

 

Some Visual Personal History

 


My forbears' shattered dreams (Latvian National Anthem):

- - National Anthem of Latvia
Found at abmp3 search engine


Latvia: Grandmother (1st row, 2nd from left) & Father (pursed lips, 2nd row, far left)


 

Latvia 1937: Mother Skiing (foreground)


 

Edgars Tillers (Father) with Dog


 

At some point (Latvian lullaby):

aija žužu



A long break ... for war, death, displacement & emigration ... and Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Silver Spring, and, then, Columbus, Ohio:



A different world:

Eighth Grade, Roosevelt Junior High School, Columbus, Ohio


mansion

Family Homestead during My Childhood (ages 8-16), Newton Street, Columbus, Ohio
(It's the unit on the exteme left.)

Alternate Caption: Hard Times


Latin

Imperial (Roman) Grandeur -- in Junior High School





Holier Than Thou (in a Lutheran refuge)


A long gap ... college, law school, law practice in California, law teaching in Wisconsin, advanced law degree, and then:



University of Puget Sound 1974 or 1975



Another long gap ... fellowships, law teaching in Northeast, law practice in Texas, working on a big book, temporarily teaching law in Boulder, Colorado...



...teaching law again in Boston, and, finally, law teaching in New York City.

 


 

Later I take some trips:

 






Riga, Latvia, early 1990s
(at banquet with Procurator General, Justice Zemribo & friends, including Rick Lempert, Malvina Halberstam, Chuck Yablon & Roger Park)






Jerusalem 1999





Mother & Kurt in Connecticut


 

Farmers' market near Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China (April 2004)



Pioneers (David Kaye & Friend) in the People's Republic (April 2004)


Glacier National Park (Summer 2004)



I move across the Hudson River to Jersey City:


 

 

Jersey City (2005)


 

 

Colgate Clock, Jersey City (Summer, 2005)



Liberty Park Walkway (May 2007)


 


Liberty Park, View toward Manhattan, November 16, 2007





Ellis Island
May 2007


 

Jersey City, Along the Hudson, April 2009


 

 

Central Railroad of New Jersey Train Terminal

(above & below; April, 2009)

The real Gateway to the New World

 


 

flag-reflect

Jersey City, May 25, 2009


 

View from Liberty Park to Jersey City & Beyond, August 11, 2011

 


 


My American Alpha & Omega



Canadian Trip 2011 (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Newfoundland):


 

Peter Tillers' Home Page