More on the McCarville Family Tree

James W. McCarville says that his book on the McCarville Family tree is sold out and he has no intention of doing it again. There is good news, however. He has it all on CD and will send anyone a copy for just $20. It can be run with Family Tree Maker software v.11. I'll let you know how it works when I get it.

Corinne and Alice McCarville and Our Irish Roots

Thanks to cousin Corinne McCarville Lester, who wrote a nifty little book on the subject, "My Irish Roots", I can trace my McCarville roots back to John McCarval on one side and to Michael and Mary Lynch in the City of Monaghan and to John Logue and Isabelle Logue of Derry on the other side.

Well, you will hear more about my Irish roots later, but I wanted to say that Corinne reports that Alice McCarville, my aunt, or my father's brother Bill's wife, just celebrated her 100th birthday. She is living in a nursing home near Rhinelander and very alert. I have to admit that I lost track of them long ago, but we had a great conversation and caught up on so much.

What I didn't know (I was younger than Corinne) was that she played college basketball long before women's sports became popular, and scored fifty points one night for UW-Oshkosh.

I also understand from Harold McCarville, that Jim W. McCarville, not me, published a detailed family tree that has all of our branch in it. He had a CD on the entire McCarville family tree that I am trying to find out if he has any copies left.

Life's Ambition

Maybe it is not "climbing Mt. Everest" but it does come close to a life's ambition. I always wanted to be cited as a source for something on NPR. It could be for anything, and hopefully it wouldn't be so controversial that everyone would think I am nuts. Well, now the whole world can hear (at ) that I think the entire national economy depends upon our locks and dams in Pittsburgh and what we do with them. Fortunately it only aired in the 5:50/6:50 AM time slot.

Do I still have to go to work Monday?

Evelyn McCarville's Diary January 10, 1927

Below see Julianne McCarville's Transcription of Evelyn Exceen McCarville's Diary from:

1927
JAN 10
Tuesday

Isn’t this a ducky book for a diary? I just got it a few minutes ago down at Behan’s “Marquette Shop” and that’s why I’m starting it on the 10th instead of the first. That’s one reason why I didn’t get a regular diary; I’ve decided this year to keep a record not as much of what I do as what I think and feel. In my other diaries there would often be several blank pages at a time because I would forget to write, so the old order changeth; hail to the new era!
I’m going to give a little summary of what’s been going on these last ten days tho’ because I may need to look up something sometime, and I want a record, so here goes.
As 1927 sneaked in I was in the Square Theater, in the fair city of Ottumwa, Iowa, with Bernard Clabby, and we didn’t get out of the show until about 1:30.
I stayed at home, except when I went to church, and in the afternoon I went to the K.C. open house. I had such a good time that a whole bunch of is kids stayed until after the evening program.
When that was over Clabby + I, Bernice and John Fagan went to a show. John is a great old traveling salesman, and thinks he’s a great hit with the flappers. He is nice. He told me that when he left Ottumwa six years ago, I was a little kid running around, holding my father’s hand.
The next two days I spent getting ready to come back to Milwaukee, and I left the night of the 3rd. Gee, I caught a terrible cold in the sleeper. I have it yet, too.
As soon as I got off the train Tuesday I dashed up to class, and have been dashing ever since. I never saw such a week or hurry and bustle and excitement.
Nothing much has happened since except that I’m studying like a Trojan. Exams come next week. I went to a movie one afternoon (Friday, I think) with Bob Slaby, and I stayed out at Dorothy Talfond’s (Frenches’ on 49th St.) Sunday night, while Ruth had a date with a sheik from her home town.
On the way to school Mon. morning (Mr. French brought us)he offered me a part time job as a stenog at the Ecco. Mfg. Co. of which he is gen. Mgr. I worked Monday and today from about 3 to 6:30. It’s fun, but he doesn’t seem to realize that you might want to quit at 5:30 the regular time.
We had a terrible time deciding whether to go to a show tonight or not, and Ruth and I cussed and discussed the matter so long that it was too late to go to a show, so we stayed home.

Welcome to "The Life and Times..."

June 20, 2004 Father's Day

This is my first blog posting on "The Life and Times...". I have big plans for the site, but let's see where this goes. Inspired by the Johnny Mack's blog , and the diaries of Evelyn McCarville of which you will hear more later, I hope to make this part of the McCarville family record - at least our branch - for the past, present and future.

It was a great Father's Day today. Sean, Julie, Andre, Christy and Haydee got me a gas grill, it says Weber, but it looks like a Nimbus 2004.

Speaking of the future, Andre and Christy have just informed us of the big news of the day that - in December or January - we are going to be Grandparents for the first time!