Dirty Work

This is the home of a chimney sweep. A truck out of view said so. Long ago, this was the home of my great-grandfather, the Irish immigrant Michael Lynch. In the New Bedford Directory of 1896, he was listed as a “stonecutter” living at this address. In records he was described throughout his life as

Waves

This is a small piece of a very large stone church in the seaside city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. This small city is known for its big fishing fleet and as the setting for Moby Dick. St. Lawrence the Martyr Church is where my grandfather John Joseph Lynch was baptized in 1895. His Irish-born father