专辑简介

My Father and Grandfather’s name, before they left Krinik in Poland, was Sturmmacher, in English, Stormmaker. In line with the “Americanization” program at Ellis Island, and partly because of fear that, while no Leon Trotsky, the Czar’s police force would come here and track down my uncle Benny, who, it was said, carried a gun and was wanted for his political crimes, we became Stollmans. To do honor to their quest, nearly a century ago, to reach a place where they and their forebears could peacefully survive and fulfill their highest hopes and dreams, I humbly reclaim their name as my own.

Sturm: Storm Macher: A man who is (or thinks he is) important A mover, a doer