727 McIndoe Street: Dinon's Wausau home (Present day: Google Maps Street View) It was the Spring of 1942 when the Boyer family moved 1,200 miles from Nahant, MA to Wausau, WI. My grandfather, Dinon, was 10 years old at the time, and lived with his family in a huge white house on McIndoe Street. He...
In the Spring of 1942, just a few short months after Pearl Harbor, my 10-year-old grandfather and his family moved 1,200 miles from Nahant, MA to Wausau, WI. His parents, my great-grandparents Ralph and Babe, had taken on a lot more responsibility in the 12 years since their 1930 marriage. Not only did they...
On the first day of 1942, my great-grandfather, Ralph Boyer, was living in Nahant, MA with his two young sons and pregnant wife, Babe. Three weeks before, Pearl Harbor had been bombed and the United States had declared war. By the spring of 1942, Ralph had accepted a new job...
Between the ages of 5 and 11 (1936-1942) my grandfather, Dinon, lived on one square mile of land, a peninsula called Nahant off the shore of Massachusetts, just a little northeast of Boston. Dinon's father, my great-grandfather Ralph, worked on the mainland end of the Nahant causeway in...
In 1930, Ralph and his new bride, Babe, moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts so that Ralph could begin his new job as a chemical engineer for General Electric's plastic division. In 1936, my great-grandfather Ralph was transferred to General Electric's plant in Lynn. So he picked up his pregnant wife and preschool son,...
One thing I have learned to never under-estimate is the power of old family photos. The emotional impact, and story-telling power, of a single photo is always incredible to me, even when the photos are of another person's family. So imagine how hard it was for me to breathe when...
