Both Papa and Uncle Dic got their hair cut at Hugo’s Barber Shop on Charles Street. It’s still there and he’s still cutting hair!
Kathie Gagne died 4,643 days ago.
June 16th, 2002 @ 10:45 am
June 16th, 2002 @ 10:37 am
Papa’s funeral parlor in Warwick. My room was the one to the right of the chimney you can see here. Nana and Papa slept in the front room upstairs. The house had a great wrap-around front porch, a huge garage on the left, and a chicken-hut and old-fashioned well in the back. The hall light upstairs.
Mom spent a significant amount of her childhood living in a funeral parlor, just like on the HBO television series “Six Feet Under”.
I have no idea why she thought the lamp in the hall was so important that it warranted its own photo and a comment. I wonder if it was special to her.
June 16th, 2002 @ 10:16 am
This is Hoxie Four Corners. I took the picture because the Dunkin Donuts place is still there!
June 16th, 2002 @ 10:14 am
I went to first grade at this school. Miss Abbottamarco was my teacher. I kissed a boy named George who was sitting on one of the basement windowsills at the time. I also starred as the fairy who picked the bunny as the Easter animal in my acting debut!
Greene Elementary — second grade only. Don’t remember much.
June 16th, 2002 @ 10:12 am
Apparently, neither of these houses are the ones we lived in on Grove Avenue, but they look enough like them to give you a good idea. The top one was about 100 yards from the beach (not the one pictured on the previous page) and the other one was further up the road.
Rhode Island State House — the view from my room when I lived in St. Patrick’s Convent.
Twelve women came together there. Four floors of huge rooms including a chapel, a terrific old stairwell, and showers that never included hot water. We prayed together every morning on the second floor and ate in the informal dining room in the basement. They tore it down and built a parking lot. …
June 16th, 2002 @ 9:57 am
Did really well at Pilgrim HS, too. We were the first class to go there all four years. Got to name the football team. I forget most of my classmates, but when I go online and see their names, I remember some fondly.
“Cousin Sophie and her daughter AnnMarie who graduated from Harvard. Sophie is incredible! She and Nana grew up together and have a lot of stories to tell.”
Note: I have no idea who these people are. I assume Cousin Sophie is Nana Anna’s cousin, although I suppose she could be mom’s cousin. I desperately wish mom was here so I could ask her.
June 16th, 2002 @ 9:44 am
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- This is where Fran lives now behind the school/church. Fran is crazy and I love her to death.
June 16th, 2002 @ 9:29 am
Conimicut Point. Great beach. Spent a lot of time there, including some fishing with Papa. There was always great lemonade on the beach. I think this is a new truck, though (laugh).