by Jennifer Zinck | 17 December 2011 | Advent
Today, like every Christmas that I can remember, I had dinner with my cousins. Last year we decided that we would get together the Saturday before Christmas since I live farther away now. I have three cousins on my maternal side and two of them have two children, a...
by Jennifer Zinck | 15 December 2011 | Advent
Happy Anniversary to Addie May Collier and Joseph Brophy! Addie and Joe were married on December 14, 1916 in West Haven, Connecticut. What a guy Joe must have been to marry a woman who had four living minor children and an ex-husband! My grandmother often talked...
by Jennifer Zinck | 08 December 2011 | Photographs, Treasure Chest Thursday
This lovely couple is Tom and Jenny, my grandmother’s grandparents. Jenny is my enate great-great grandmother. There was a family story that they loved each other so much that they got married twice. Their story probably could have gone on forever if not for...