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Another shot of Mrs a posing in the door way of the Addington Palace Annex, or whatever it is. A dreary, derelict looking place, but still...
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Mood: Love *wiebkefesch Apr 4, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
On Monday the records of the 1940 U.S. Census were released online. It took a lot of persistance and digging, but I managed to find both sets of grandparents (and my parents) in the records. Really tough even if you have the street (I did, having asked Mom) because the Bronx is so densely populated -- pretty much all apartment buildings. But I finally found! Oma was recorded as 35 that year, living with her 40-year-old husband and my 4-year-old mom. My dad's family was much easier to find because they were on City Island, small island off the Bronx that is more like a small town than a city. The whole family lived in a little house owned by my great-grandmother, who had let my grandparents move in after the rest of the family disowned them. (My grandmother's family did NOT approve of such low company as the Darlings, who were sailmakers while her family was related to one of the founding families of New York, even if they were by that point poor relations.)

Re Massachusetts, can't recommend it enough. Boston is pretty much like London except in miniature. The architectural styles -- and the jumble of them -- are very similar. Some places are so similar it's a bit eerie. Like the first time I went to Covent Garden I was like "OMG! I've been here! It's Fanueil Hall!" Even the subway is similar; not tubes but I think the oldest system in the U.S., second oldest in world next to I think London. Beyond Boston there is much more, like Cape Anne, in the northeast portion, where I'm from. All the classic seafaring, whaling towns like Gloucester, Salem, Manchester-by-the-Sea, etc. Out where my parents live, maybe 1 1/2 hrs. west of Boston, it is all small towns and villages, pretty much all with those white steepled churches and 300-year-old colonial houses. I grew up in Andover, again, up in the northeast new New Hampshire. I think the town was founded in 1642 and there are a ton of really old houses -- just about as old as you get in the U.S. My brother-in-laws parents live in a house from about 1720 and it is so quaint, with built-in panels of art and a killer staircase. No idea how they got furniture upstairs :)

I am rambling I know but I am procrastinating about starting work today :)

Wendy
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