THE HILLMANNS OF BROOKLYN
CHAPTER 33
1927
MARIAN GRADUATES
Before we see all the graduation photos, let's join the pre-graduation picnic.
What a momentous thing high school graduation is. A time to move forward, with the realization you won't see the same people everyday anymore.
Also, in 1927, the Holland Tunnel was completed, connecting New York to New Jersey.
Charles Lindberg completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic and was a hero.
Marian's mother, Rose, had two sisters and two brothers. Her oldest sister, Henrietta, never married. Her younger sister, Angelica, married a few years after Rose. Conversely, Rose's brothers married much later in life. This is Rose's brother, Henry "Harry" with his son, Harry.
Harry Sr. worked for Borden Foods his entire life. Pretty much all the men you see in this album, except my father, worked for the same companies, or in the same profession, all their lives. Harry Sr. was 38 years old when Harry Jr. was born. His wife was a couple years younger. ThroughAncestry.com I met a cousin of Harry and Marian's.
She told me Harry Jr. was spoiled. I said he had to be.
In 1927 seventy-eight children were killed in one Montreal theatre fire.
A school in Bath Township, Michigan was bombed killing 45, mostly children. It was perpetrated by a man protesting high taxes, in case you thought Timothy McVeigh or terrorism were something new.
Rose just saw her only child graduate from high school. Her brother, Henry, has just begun raising his only child. Hillmanns albums come out on Tuesdays. Next week we're going on Summer vacay.
