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Good Neighbors

I have been contemplating gratitude. Grateful for my family, for my friends from across my life and across the country, and especially grateful these days for the warm and supportive community of neighbors we have here in Santa Fe.

place, identityNancy EganNovember 25, 2024Santa Fe, Zocalo, Ricardo Legorreta, Contemporary architecture, Neighbors, Neighborhood, Butte MT, Santa Monica. Ocean Park, Brookshare Avenue, Brookshire Avenue, Ventura California Comments

My Father and His Father's Grave

In the last year of my father's life he obsessed about his father's grave. His life had been upended in nearly every way, yet regularly he would call the office at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Butte, Montana to assure that his father's grave was being cared for.

identity, place, cultureNancy EganMarch 17, 2021Butte MT, Ventura CA, Robert Emmet Literary Association, Ireland, ancient Order of Hiberians, St. Patrick's Day, Robert Emmet, Irish Republic, Ivy Lawn, St. Patrick's CemeteryComment

Thomas Liss Weds Miss Della Nolan

When I was growing up, my grandmother used to reminisce about how she ran away to the icehouse to meet my grandfather for their planned elopement. It wasn't until I discovered a hundred-year-old newspaper clipping in a box of family photos that I began to imagine a more complicated story.

identity, placeNancy EganFebruary 14, 2021grandparents, wedding, Butte, Montana, Barbershop, vaudeville, family, Butte MTComment