In 1856, twenty-year-old John Carten (born McCarten), my second great granduncle, left his home in Pembroke, Maine and traveled to Australia, more than fifteen thousand miles away. John was searching for gold and Australia was the place to be. The search for gold never ended and John’s life…
Uncle Rob Around 1911, a Columbia University student was riding on the subway and trying to catch up on his Livy assignment. A subway guard saw the student struggling with…
My father loved to tell everyone he was a very lucky man and he really was. He considered himself the luckiest man in the world to have been married to my mother. But his “lucky list” was long and included much more than my mother, though she was the…
My mother, Evelyn Campbell Ullrich (AKA Mama), was a “city girl” and there was only one city, New York. She was the third generation in her family born in New York; and…