The following two excerpts from a doctoral dissertation about Beatrice (Posner) Wright provide a glimpse in the home in Queens where she and her siblings Esther and Sidney grew up:
The Posners lived in a large apartment on the top floor of a hardware store they owned that carried a little of everything, including plumbing and electrical supplies, fertilizer and grass seed, bins of nails, and Sherwin Williams paints, for which Beatrice continues to have a fondness: "to this day, when I see a store selling Sherwin Williams paints, I just, my heart... because I had a really wonderful childhood. [...] My mother was a devoted partner serving customers and helping my father who quickly became known as 'Chief' because he could fix anything. In those days, you didn't need a license to be an electrician, plumber, or carpenter, so my father did it all. Sometimes I helped by delivering shore ads in the neighborhood, climbing what seemed like endless stoop stairs until I became very tired."
-- Beatrice A. Wright: A Life History by Sheryl Lee Wurl (2008), pp. 60-61
Recalls Beatrice's son, Erik: "Although I was not aware of this at the time, my [maternal] grandparents and the New York relatives were Communists. This was never openly talked about, but from time to time I would hear glowing things said about the Soviet Union, socialism would be held out as an ideal, and America and capitalism would be criticized in emotionally laden ways." Never impressed with labels, Beatrice terms her son's interpretation "a bit exaggerated" and remembers her parents as humanistic, loving and supportive, characteristics that had nothing to do with being either 'Jewish' or 'Communist.'
-- Beatrice A. Wright: A Life History by Sheryl Lee Wurl (2008), pp. 62-63