“I used to ride in my father’s rumble seat, ” Dad told me while we sat at the bar in Loftus Tavern. As Dad drank a short beer and I sipped a Coke, I wondered what’s a rumble seat? He said, “It was a seat that hinged out of the back of the car; it felt like you were riding in mid air. ” We mulled over our drinks and I thought someday, I was going to ride in a rumble seat. Thomas E. ...