The statue wearing George Bonanno’s dusty straw hat isn’t visible here, but Bonanno, who studies emotional resilience, has made 426 Horace Mann home. It’s also a time capsule of his career, with his mementos from riding railroad boxcars, sketches of Charlie Parker and Frank Zappa (Bonanno plays flute), and Chinese antiquities (he admires Eastern cultures). Marcello, a plastic skull, displays the muscle that governs frowning. There are books: The Emperor of All Maladies; Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. So if the doctor is in, pull up a reconstituted chair and stay a while.

Published Monday, Jun. 8, 2015