111 Dessa Drive

Reed Gwillim Law returned from his service in the Air Corps in England to encounter the postwar housing shortage. At first, he rented in New Haven to be near his classes at Yale, living with Jean Inglis Law and the infant Reed Gwillim Law Jr. (So I was later told,) Harry Nathan Law bought him the house at 111 Dessa Drive in Hamden, CT. This was likely built in a new development. It backed onto Bassett Park's wooded fringe. I remember the streets as barren of trees. Jean would push me down sloping streets to Whitney Ave., where the nearest shops were located, in a stroller. There was an Esso gas station on the corner, and I can remember noting, once I had learned my alphabet, that the stylized Esso name began with a reverse "3" rather than a capital "E".