by Convivial | Feb 17, 2015 | Hess Family
A young NYC Jewish engineer’s 1946 trek to the American Southwest finds unexpected top secret collaborators. All is revealed almost seventy years later through the discovery of his letters by his artist daughter. After moving to New Mexico Melinda found a box...
by Convivial | May 24, 2014 | Hess Family
Today Private Sandy Hess, my father, would be 87 years old, if he were still living on earth. He’s been gone for almost 23 years now. So much has happened in space exploration since 1946 when he was assigned to ‘Project Paperclip’ and worked on the V2 Project at Fort...
by Convivial | Nov 3, 2013 | Hess Family
In LETTER FROM CLOUDCROFT, a daughter uncovers the alliance between American and German rocket scientists in 1940’s New Mexico through her Jewish Father’s letters, discovered after his death. One still unopened 1946 letter from the Lodge at Cloudcroft...
by Convivial | Nov 10, 2012 | Documentary, Hess Family, Letters
Opening The Letter From Cloudcroft Symposium Speakers The unopened 1946 letter and associated intact letter collection provided a unique, personal touchstone for this unprecedented gathering of scholars and lay professionals addressing the complex issues surrounding...
by Convivial | Apr 25, 2012 | Hess Family
I have a cookie jar story to share that connects the present with the past. On a bitter cold day in December I revisited my grandparent’s old neighborhood in Washington Heights- a formerly German Jewish neighborhood in NYC. I hadn’t been there in over 30 years- not...
