Rubber Relations

In 1910, the O’Connors came to Providence, Rhode Island, from Chelsea, Massachusetts, and found an apartment here, in the Valley neighborhood. Daniel, my great-grandfather, was taking a mill job with the big US Rubber Company. He had previously worked at a rubber mill in Chelsea with his brothers Frank and Bernie. The O’Connors were immigrants

Looking Back

Drawing can be about so much more than just appearances. What we choose to draw can be about what we’d like to investigate, or wonder about. A page can hold feelings as well as ink. Consider this series. In tandem with some genealogy I’ve been doing, I’ve dedicated myself to finding through my records, all