Our Dads

Well here's Leo and Harrison. Nancy and My Fathers. Not the best shots because I took them off slides, luckly they are more vivid in our memories.

A Look Back On Fathers Day

I wanted to make a collage, so I thought I would give you girls a look at your father
as he started out. As you can see I've always have needed the "Husky" size. I also thought I would include my other grand father, Abel Freitas. It's the only picture of him that I have at the moment. Now I need to find a picture of Leo and Harrison.

Our RailRoad Heritage

Today in the Hartford Courant was a story about a turntable bridge made for the Providence,Webster and Springfield Railroad. It was reinstalled at a rail yard in Willimatic Ct. previously used by the New York, New haven and Hartford railroad. As you may or not know my grandfather (Lester Larrabee) was an Engineer for them. How does this relate, you might ask? Well in the 1910 Census for WEBSTER Ma. we find Lester,Lillian and their sons Francis and Galen listed. We can speculate that He probably worked for the Providence, Webster and Springfield railroad first and later for The New Haven railroad. So take a look at the video and wonder if he traveled over this turntable or passed through this rail yard. www.courant.com/turntable
I think GF Larrabee is the railroad man on the left. The portrait is of him probably at age 18. (His birthdate was 1880)