My father was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, somewhere along the way, he found himself in Newburyport where he graduated from NHS in 1941.

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In the early 1940's my father was a left-handed pitcher for the Newbury Shamrocks baseball team. His proud moment that he loved to share was the time that he hit a home run oven the pond at the Green in Newbury.

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Before marrying my mother Virginia Josephine (Roger) Riley in 1946, he lived at the local YMCA for a while with other residences including State & Washington streets.

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From what I understand, after leaving the Army Air Corps, my family was one of the first to live in what was, at the time, called "The Projects" in the Northend of town.

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Some of his jobs were at the Hytron, Boston Navy Yard, Portsmouth Navy Yard, and the Portsmouth Air Base all as a civilian.

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In the early 1960's he family purchased our forever home at 30 Temple Street where he lived until his death in 2002.

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At one time, I was able to verify some of this from the Newburyport Daily News archives which I can't seem to locate online any longer.