Visitors

Mr. Sterry and John, 1911
Mr. Sterry and John, 1911

On June 2, 1911, one of this upstanding pair wrote to Michael McGrath announcing an imminent visit.

"Mr. Sterry & myself will be in Kingston nex week," 1911
"Mr. Sterry & myself will be in Kingston nex week," 1911

In the 1910 federal census, Michael McGrath is listed as a 57 year old foreman and farmer who owned a home and land on Elm Street.  He appeared in an earlier post posing with a team of oxen while working on the Bailey Playground in 1926. The census is no help in identifying Mr. Sterry, and without a last name, John could be anybody.

Let’s take a trip out to the West

They say the coast is the most and the west is the best.

Margaret Holmes and friend at the Tunnel Tree, no date
Margaret Holmes and friend at the Tunnel Tree, no date

Here Kingstonian Margaret Holmes and an unidentified friend pose at the Tunnel Tree, a giant sequoia and well-known tourist attraction in Yosemite National Park.

 

Captain Charles W. Gelett

Captain Charles W. Gelett, circa 1875
Captain Charles W. Gelett, circa 1875

Though he was from Fairhaven, Captain Gelett married Kingstonian Jane Russell on March 14, 1843.  It’s not recorded where this photograph was taken, but Fairhaven seems likely, given what’s nicely inscribed on the back of the panel card.

Whalebone chair
Whalebone chair

And a detail shows that the legs are vertebrae!

Detail of whalebone chair
Detail of whalebone chair