In the library of the Adirondack Museum is a reel-to-reel audio tape of an interview by Nancy Dymond, recorded in 1969. The subject is Tupper Lake, New York, merchant Mose Ginsberg. Twenty years later author Amy Godine listened to this four-hour long tape and gathered Ginsberg's words, interpreted by her own, into an article published in the November/December (1989) issue of Adirondack Life called "The Kindness of Strangers: Mose Ginsberg and his Promised Land." The biographical sketch that follows is based on information, and sometimes direct quotations, from that article which in turn is based on the tape.