Coming Home: Martha Reynolds McVeigh
The ‘Real Fabric’ of West Warwick: Her People West Warwick resident Martha Reynolds was single until the age of 36, when she met and married Jim McVeigh. At that point, she took on her husband’s name, figuring “McVeigh” had a nice ring to it—especially when added to Martha. That was before the Oklahoma City bombing,…
Notable West Warwick People in All Walks of Life…
Sports is what most people associate West Warwick with. They know of legendary football player-turned-coach, Monk Maznicki or professional baseball catcher, Mike Roarke. But most don’t know other ‘greats’ from West Warwick who continue to inspire. Bill Gadoury attempts to give closure to families of America’s MIA’s. Today, he works for the US Embassy in…
Where Are They? Past Members of Our Class No One Knows About…..
“Whatever happened to So-and-So?” we’d ask and no one seemed to know. In fact, our sleuthing reunion detectives (and we had some really good ones,) couldn’t find these class members—no matter what. I was on two reunion committees, but since husband and I lived away, in North Carolina, through a meaty time of reunion preparation…
Mondos and Colleeges
Mondos…and Colleges (pronounced “Col-leeges”) Photo of Future Nurses is from ‘63 Chronicle (Deering High School) yearbook. I’m in back row, far left. Yep, if you ever watched “Happy Days,” you knew there were at least two major groups in any high school, in the 50’s and 60’s—the Mondos with their slicked back hair,…
To Me, He Looked Like Elliott Ness of “Untouchables” fame…
Oh, you know—the good guy…the one who went after the mob…the thugs…the ones selling the booze, shady women, drugs or other illegal substances in the period of the Depression. Yep, that’s what I thought. To me, my Dad, John J. Kelly, looked like the actor Robert Stack, who reincarnated the crime-fighting Federal agent, Eliot…
The Bridges of West Warwick
If the 19 original Bridges of Madison County, Iowa (immortalized in a book by the same name by Robert James Waller and its subsequent movie,) were covered, wooden affairs, those that spanned rivers in West Warwick, in an earlier era, were red or green metal, with wooden slats across the roadway. I know that…
