Re: the photo of people standing in a parking lot; that lot was our playground when I attended the Immaculate Conception School years ago. The house in the background was the convent of the Sisters of Mercy. I can remember the nuns pulling out of the garage to the left in the late 50's, in a car from the early 40's. To the right of the house, there was a clothes line in the yard with a lattice screen around it, so that the sister's unmentionables couldn't be seen on the line!
I remember having class in a parlor in this house when the school furnace went dead one winter, and I can remember my father and I bringing pies to the nuns one Christmas. Dad honked the car horn and Sister Mary Borromeo came out through the snow, with a shawl wrapped around her, to our car to get the pies.
Coming across this photo was totally unexpected - I can't believe the nice memories that are coming back to me because of it, and am amazed that the house has changed so little. Even the late 19th century dovecote can be seen on the left side of the garage or carriage shed.
Re: the photo of people standing in a parking lot; that lot was our playground when I attended the Immaculate Conception School years ago. The house in the background was the convent of the Sisters of Mercy. I can remember the nuns pulling out of the garage to the left in the late 50's, in a car from the early 40's. To the right of the house, there was a clothes line in the yard with a lattice screen around it, so that the sister's unmentionables couldn't be seen on the line!
I remember having class in a parlor in this house when the school furnace went dead one winter, and I can remember my father and I bringing pies to the nuns one Christmas. Dad honked the car horn and Sister Mary Borromeo came out through the snow, with a shawl wrapped around her, to our car to get the pies.
Coming across this photo was totally unexpected - I can't believe the nice memories that are coming back to me because of it, and am amazed that the house has changed so little. Even the late 19th century dovecote can be seen on the left side of the garage or carriage shed.
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Re: the photo of people standing in a parking lot; that lot was our playground when I attended the Immaculate Conception School years ago. The house in the background was the convent of the Sisters of Mercy. I can remember the nuns pulling out of the garage to the left in the late 50's, in a car from the early 40's. To the right of the house, there was a clothes line in the yard with a lattice screen around it, so that the sister's unmentionables couldn't be seen on the line!
I remember having class in a parlor in this house when the school furnace went dead one winter, and I can remember my father and I bringing pies to the nuns one Christmas. Dad honked the car horn and Sister Mary Borromeo came out through the snow, with a shawl wrapped around her, to our car to get the pies.
Coming across this photo was totally unexpected - I can't believe the nice memories that are coming back to me because of it, and am amazed that the house has changed so little. Even the late 19th century dovecote can be seen on the left side of the garage or carriage shed.
Re: the photo of people standing in a parking lot; that lot was our playground when I attended the Immaculate Conception School years ago. The house in the background was the convent of the Sisters of Mercy. I can remember the nuns pulling out of the garage to the left in the late 50's, in a car from the early 40's. To the right of the house, there was a clothes line in the yard with a lattice screen around it, so that the sister's unmentionables couldn't be seen on the line!
I remember having class in a parlor in this house when the school furnace went dead one winter, and I can remember my father and I bringing pies to the nuns one Christmas. Dad honked the car horn and Sister Mary Borromeo came out through the snow, with a shawl wrapped around her, to our car to get the pies.
Coming across this photo was totally unexpected - I can't believe the nice memories that are coming back to me because of it, and am amazed that the house has changed so little. Even the late 19th century dovecote can be seen on the left side of the garage or carriage shed.
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