I’ve always been in awe of the number of Yale ’71ers who have achieved significant accomplishments in fields in addition to the ones in which they are best-known professionally. Jim Kaplan, for example, is a mild-mannered trust-and-estates lawyer by day — and a passionate chronicler of New York history “on the side.” As an adoptive New Yorker, I’ve been fortunate to be on Jim’s walking tours, where he literally brings history to life.
Jim’s a terrific writer, too. He’s now partway through what will eventually be a 15-part history of Wall Street. The New York Almanack is set to publish the entire series, which you can read here.