B I O G R A P H Y
David Bear Alter was born in New York City in 1924 and at age three or four his parents moved to a tiny upstate New York hamlet named East Nassau along the Vermont and Massachusetts borders.
The settlement, about 75 strong, was among the Colonial Dutch land holdings settled during the early 1700s by Killaen van Rensselaer. His home was among the earliest in Rensselaer County. East Nassau is one of many New Engla...