Hand Me Down

In this episode, my great-great grandfather Michael O'Connor participates in the very first boycott, and in a way, initiates his own.

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In this episode, my great-grandmother Mary Morley Desmond writes some words during the worst of the Great Depression.

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In this episode, my great-grandfather and his brother go looking for trouble, and hope to prove the truth of that old adage “it’s not who starts the fight that matters, it’s who finishes it.”

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In this episode, I look into members of the family who were of age 100 years ago during The Great War – World War I – and tell the story of my great-uncle James Flanagan who served in World War I. More at oconnor.home.blog

In this episode, I begin the story of my great-great grandfather Baldwin Gardiner of San Francisco. It will take multiple posts to tell his story. Trust me. I think. More at oconnor.home.blog

At first it appeared to be just an innocuous lapel pin on an image of my great-grandfather, Thomas O'Connor. But wait... is that a hatchet? More at oconnor.home.blog

In this episode, we’ll look at my 2nd great uncle, John Desmond. I don’t know why I chose to feature him first. Maybe it’s because I recently found an image of him – a drawing that appeared in the Sacramento Bee in 1892. Something about an image that draws me to its story. More at oconnor.home.blog

In this episode, I’ll be setting up the background to this series and introduce the four branches of my family tree that serve as the structure for the program. More at oconnor.home.blog