My husband Bill and I were vacationing on the Cape in the summer of 1965 when some friends sailed over to visit us.

A boy, really, just out of high school./Catholic, Coughlin parish/Funny nose/Ambitious

Before Peggy became Peggy Charren, the children’s television activist, she was just Peggy at Squibnocket Beach with the pigtail down her back and the indescribable accent.

When I heard about the People’s Climate March in New York city, I just had to go. Now I am a grandmother. I needed to do this for my five grandkids.