Like most little girls of her era, Dru Troescher-Battle had a Barbie doll. But Troescher-Battle, of Metairie, was never one of those obsessed Barbie kids. “I couldn’t decide between dolls and trucks,” ...

It's a late afternoon in the summer of 1962 in Sunnyside, Queens. People are coming home from work in "the city," exiting the nearby subway and walking by us, four little girls sitting on the sidewalk ...