Hero

Carl Florio, born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1905. Retired to Florida in 1995, where this photo was taken when he was in his 70's. Photographed by Barbara Florio Graham

I didn’t hear the phone, but my older sister did. She opened her eyes, saw the sleet outside, and knew it was yet another truck in trouble.

Daddy owned the largest rig in Southern Connecticut and the only one with a winch powerful enough to haul a tractor-trailer out of a ditch.