Just a matter of weeks from now, on December 31, as millions of Americans don party hats and pop champagne corks to usher in the New Year, Kathleen Casey, the Philadelphia-born daughter of a Navy machinist and his wife, will likely find her phone once again ringing off the hook. It happens every decade or so. Journalists and academics and earnest civic leaders, family and friends, all find their way to Casey’s doorstep, hoping for just a few minutes of her time, eager to glean a little bit of wisdom about what it all means and where it’s all going.

Kathleen Casey, you see, bears the unique distinction of having launched the baby boom.

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