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Time to bring back that old favourite ditty?
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:46:02 -0000 (UTC), "Justan O." wrote:
On 10/29/20 12:07 PM, Keyser Söze wrote: On 10/29/20 11:42 AM, Justan O. wrote: 8On 10/29/20 11:02 AM, Keyser Söze wrote: On 10/29/20 10:49 AM, wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:37:55 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: southern Connecticut. Is there a northern connecticut? The whole state is only about 60 miles from the Long Island Sound to the Mass border at it's widest point. It is more like 45-50 from where you lived. When I was a kid, it was a three hour drive from New Haven to the Boston suburbs, where my grandparents lived. The only way there was the old Merritt Parkway as far in Connecticut as it went, and then commercial state highways from there to the outskirts of Boston. These days, of course, it takes less time. We never went straight north into Massachusetts because we didn't have any relatives in that part of the state. The best way to get from New Haven to Boston back then was on the train. Great train ride. Still is. I believe your relatives are from Revere. Revere has close ties to the North End but it is not Boston. My relatives on both sides of the family lived in the Boston area, including Boston proper, Revere, Salem, and other sites within the SMSA. I also had relatives who lived in New York City and in the Philly area. In fact, my father's parents first lived in Elkins Park, a Philly suburb, before they moved to Boston and then Revere. My mother's parents lived in Boston proper their entire time in the USA. So, as usual, you jumped to the wrong conclusions. My dad's parents moved from Philly to Revere to manage a couple of small stores my grandfather's brother owned in partnership with other relatives in the New Haven area. After my dad graduated from college in Philly, he went to work for his uncle, my grandfather's brother, as a regional manager and then as the manager of several stores in New Jersey, including Atlantic City, where he met my mother and got married. I was conceived in AC, but then my parents relocated to Wallingford, CT, and then New Haven, where my dad opened a machine shop with his brother and did work for the government during the war. After the war, my dad opened his first boat dealership in New Haven. And you, you don't even know who your daddy was, I'd bet.  Nothing useful there. Just a waste of bandwidth. I'm sure DonyBlanc appreciates it. More to add to his Harry scrapbook. -- Freedom Isn't Free! |
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