Posts Tagged ‘ Chennai ’

Hooray! A photo of Mr. P. A. Thiruvenkatachari and my dad hung on the wall of my dad’s study for three or four decades, and I thought it had disappeared when my sisters and I cleaned out my parents’ house. But today, in the Woodman papers in the Colby-Sawyer College archives, I hit pay dirt! Many thanks to college archivist Kelli Bogan for digitizing this! Here’s Mr. Patch, with my dad, in an undated photograph taken at Patch’s …Read More

You fall into the role of family archivist gradually, without quite realizing what’s happening. My relatives think I love smelly old paper that makes your fingers wrinkle, and photo albums held together by decaying rubber bands. Actually, I do love that stuff—for example, my grandparents’ account book from their first three years of marriage. How else would I know that they were Bull Moose Republicans and ate tripe? Five years after my dad’s death, I’m still going through …Read More