A monthly gift lets us plan ahead instead of scrambling. Give $10 a month or more as a founding monthly member and we'll send you a copy of A New York Boy as our thank-you. Beach House of Zen Inc. is a church and 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN 82-2052252. Gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
In 1950, artist Mary Dagmar Hansen Geltman wrote and illustrated A New York Boy by hand for her three-year-old son, Marc: his walks through Greenwich Village, his first days at school, and Pank, the family cat who followed him everywhere. She never meant it for print. Seventy-five years later, Angela Prosser, founder of Beach House of Zen, curated and edited Mary's book and brought it to readers, every hand-drawn, hand-lettered page intact.
