{"id":1060,"date":"2010-04-04T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2010-04-04T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:20:04","slug":"a-look-back-a-churchill-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/a-look-back-a-churchill-view\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back &#8212; Churchill View"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1061\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jrs_jr_and_bobby_mckinnon_with_beagles_small-marked.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1061\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1061\" title=\"Churchill View mid 1930's\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jrs_jr_and_bobby_mckinnon_with_beagles_small-marked-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Churchill View, James R. Smith &amp; Bobby McKenna\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jrs_jr_and_bobby_mckinnon_with_beagles_small-marked-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jrs_jr_and_bobby_mckinnon_with_beagles_small-marked.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Churchill View, James R. Smith &amp; Bobby McKenna<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It has been a while since I have posted, lots going on here, including the recent death of my father.<\/p>\n<p>While sorting through old photos, I came across this image which is one of my favorites.   On the left is my dad, James R. Smith and on the right is Bobby McKenna.   This photo was taken mid 1930&#8217;s by my estimate and the location is behind the buildings on the corner of Jackson and High Streets, in Churchill, where my father and countless other relations lived.<\/p>\n<p>The beagles belonged to my grandfather, not sure about the pups, but the adult dogs &#8212; parents of these puppies &#8212; were named Heather Belle and Rob Roy,   apropos coming from a Scottish immigrant. This was way before my time, but family legend laughed about my father practicing the bagpipes with beagles howling along much to the annoyance of some people.   If you have ever heard howling beagle dogs, you will know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby McKenna moved away from Holyoke not too many years after this photo was taken, Dad told me.   I do not think Bobby McKenna finished school in Holyoke, but I always thought it would be nice for his family to have seen this picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I have posted, lots going on here, including the recent death of my father. While sorting through old photos, I came across this image which is one of my favorites. On the left is my dad, James R. Smith and on the right is Bobby McKenna. This photo was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[299,298,301,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}