MEMOIRS OF SCHOOL STREET VILLAGE: FOLLOWING UP ON PREVIOUS POSTS....

MEMOIRS OF SCHOOL STREET VILLAGE

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The "Village", as it was called, is located in the northwest corner of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts U.S.A. It covers about 1 square mile with the center being School Street. A large portion of the Village population was Portuguese when I was growing up.

This blog covers a lot of the history of the Village, much to do with my years as a child there: 1940 through the late 1950's. I do have many wonderful photos and information prior to that that and will share those as well. Always looking for MORE PHOTOS AND MORE STORIES TO TELL.

If you would like to send photos or share a memory of growing up in the Village

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I will be posting photographs but not identifying individuals unless I have permission or they are a matter of public record. It you wish to give me permission, please let me know.

I am looking for any and all photos of the Village...

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Saturday, June 18, 2016

FOLLOWING UP ON PREVIOUS POSTS....

In the last post http://schoolstvillage.blogspot.com I posted incredible photographs from Camp Myles Standish including group photographs of the switchboard operators at the Camp in1943. I had no idea that anyone could possibly be recognized! Our incredible Arlene Gouveia did just that and identified Mary Pina from School Street in the Village: third row up 7th from the left. A wonderful way to link the Village with the Camp and the woman we were writing about in that last post, Jacqueline Tremblay. The photograph was sent to us by Jacqueline's daughter, Melanie Capriotti.

A shared heritage from mother to daughter.

If I am not mistaken the Pina family were neighbors of my Souza grandparents at 184 School St.

When my grandfather died tragically in a boating accident in 1927, my grandmother was

caring for a neighbor, Mrs. Pina , who had just given birth. Connections, connections.....

Below is another fascinating follow-up. Kudos to the Internet, it can bring great good not just great harm. But, it is the researcher's best friend. Remember the posts about the baby spoon marked Mount Hope Hospital found in Brazil?

http://schoolstvillage.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-little-spoon-that-could.html

Well, this is not so involved but still amazing. In the past few weeks I received an e-mail from someone in Perth Australia who was trying to date this photo of the New York Lace Store circa 1800's. This was a new one on me, I had never seen it or realized that the store had been located somewhere other than on Main St. next to J.M. Wells or prior to that in the Whittenton. Below is the link to my original post.

http://schoolstvillage.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-york-lace-store-history-of-downtown.html

The researcher was actually looking for information about the photographer
upstairs in this photo: C.L. Fearnside.