Una Iglesia renacida
[by Fred Lynch in Chelsea, Massachusetts] I met a man across the street from St. Rose Church on Broadway in Chelsea, Massachusetts, while drawing, who smiled when I told him that my grandfather was baptized in this church. With his Hispanic accent, he said that he was going into the church just now to prepare for […]
Debe preguntar
[by Fred Lynch in Chelsea, Massachusetts] Continuing on my sketchbook investigation of family history and immigration. Often when I’m drawing, I think I’m invisible. People usually treat me that way, too. People don’t tend to interact. Where the O’Connors lived in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1908, no one lives now. At the address is a car repair […]
Renters
[by Fred Lynch in Chelsea, Massachusetts] Continuing on my sketching journey of ancestry and immigration. This is the house where my grandfather James Victor O’Connor was born in 1904. He and his young family lived here in an apartment in Chelsea, Massachusetts, for a couple of years, and then moved around the corner. I’m noticing through […]
Inmigrantes perdidos y encontrados
[by Fred Lynch near Boston] Continuing on my sketching journey of ancestry and immigration. When investigating my long-gone immigrant ancestors, I often find more immigrants living in the same houses, and filling the same neighborhoods. In this American drama, the set remains the same – only the cast changes. In the small, crowded city of […]