Archie is smart and would forge different paths: one that was cut short by an early demise, one as a sexually confused young man attempting to find his way, another as a boy having his baseball dreams cut short by a horrific accident, and the last as a boy whose adolescence is influenced by an early trauma. Archie’s life would be colored by his imagination, which he used to make up a sibling, and by his grandmother teaching him to read and write. Stanley and Rose married, but multiple miscarriages proved frustrating until the birth of Archie. His father Stanley struggled and worked his way up, while his mother Rose had an easier road. His grandfather, Ichabod, came to the United States with an idea for a name, but in his garbled utterance, left his name up to Ellis Island officials. Archibald “Archie” Ferguson was born in 1947.
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