Grammy's Pictures (4) -- The Alps

This picture hung in the Gig Harbor house for many years.  Today it belongs to Sean.

Grammy's Art and Other Memorabilia

Grammy's Pictures (3) - Lake Owasso

Grammy's Art and Other Memorabilia

St. John's Cemetery (Calvary) Rochester

Calvary Cemetery was founded in December 1874 as Saint John's Cemetery through the purchase of 15 acres of land by Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Grace Bishop of St. Paul and given to J. B. Cotter Bishop of Winona in January 1895. 

The name was changed to Calvary Cemetery Association Rochester on November 1, 1940.

1999 Maura Madden Donovan, Mary Carney
and Norene Cajacob Moser 

Calvary is the home of nearly 100 Lawler and over a dozen each of English and Baier burials along with a few Delmores.  

Jean English Madden standing by stone of
Luke and Margaret (Somers) Delmore
1999

These pictures are from two visits, one in 1999 and the other in 2018.

 

Find a Grave - Calvary Cemetery

Grammy's Pictures (2) - Ross Castle

Turlough

On our 2017 trip to Ireland we visited the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life in Turlough.  It is the only National museum outsie Dublin County.

It was well worth the slight side trip, filled with the items that our ancestors might have used.

If you can't make it to Ireland for a visit, the website has interesting information.




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Grammy's Pictures (1) - Miles Standish

Grammy painted many pictures over the years.  Many were copies of paintings by masters, others were her original compositions.

Mom made notes on a few.  This is the first of what will eventually be many posts showing some of those pictures, the stories and other fragments of notes that exist on the paintings.  Miles Standish was, I believe, Mom's favorite of the paintings.  It hung in the dining room in Gig Harbor.

25x21 [Jean Madden]

Crough Patrick

Ireland's Holy Mountain

The tradition of making a pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick dates back to the Stone Age, when visitors gathered to celebrate the beginning of the harvest. Archaeological excavations have uncovered a Celtic hill fort and glass beads dating to the 3rd century BC.  Christian significance dates back to Patrick, who legend says banished the snakes from Ireland from this mount.

Well, I enjoyed it from the bottom, the views are wonderful and sitting in it's shadow is the a National Famine Monument.  Kailee who visited a few weeks later made it to the top, as did some of the family during our original Family Gathering in Ireland in 1998!!

Kailee at the top - Sept 2017

The Famine Memorial

Visitor Centre
Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail
National Famine Monument - Wild Atlantic Way
List of Memorials to the Great Famine
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