Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden Editor's Note: Sunday brought the Reunion crowd another gorgeous, sunny day. The Buehler Enabling Garden was exclusively set aside for the Canavan Reunion group, as was our exclusive tram tour of the Garden's 385 acres. [...]
2021-07 The Bowe, Thompson & De Rosa Families
The Bowe, Thompson & De Rosa Families In the center of this slide you see Mabel’s daughter Julia Lecour. Julia married my uncle, Augustine Bowe in 1927. Gus, as he was known, was Julia’s cousin once removed, being [...]
2021-06 Mabel Canavan & Edward Lecour (Julia Lecour Bowe)
Mabel Canavan Lecour & Edward Lecour (Julia Lecour Bowe) In 1900, Mabel Canavan moved from Michigan back to Kankakee County, where her father had grown up. There she married Edward Lecour. Edward’s family was of French extraction and [...]
1995 Melissa and Jamie Bowe Recite the Alphabet, Wahwa Cottages, Cape Porpoise, Maine
1995 Melissa and Jamie Bowe Recite the Alphabet, Wahwa Cottages, Cape Porpoise, Maine Editor's Note: In July, 1995, I was serving as President of Encyclopaedia Britannica's dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster located in Springfield, Massachusetts. This gave me a chance [...]
1994 Charley and June Leftwich Bowe are Married in Cape Porpoise, Maine
1994 Charley and June Leftwich Bowe are Married in Cape Porpoise, Maine Editor's Note: In August, 1994 my cousin Charles Bowe married June Leftwich in Cape Porpoise Maine. The church ceremony was in a wonderful setting and the afternoon [...]
2001 Robert Stanley Bowe and Daisy Janeway Bowe Sail Away into Married Life in Cape Porpoise, Maine
2001 Robert Stanley Bowe and Daisy Janeway Bowe Sail Away into Married Life in Cape Porpoise, Maine Editor's Note: In October, 2001 Cathy, Andy, Pat and I holed up in a house at 25 Pier Road in Cape [...]
1994 The Bowe and Thompson Families Gather at the Wahwa Cottages, Cape Porpoise, Maine
1994 The Bowe and Thompson Families Gather at the Wahwa Cottages, Cape Porpoise, Maine Editor's Note: In August, 1994, the legacy pier in front of the Wahwa Cottages of the Bowe and Pargellis families was ready for action. Descending [...]
Julia Bowe Spins a Bedtime Tale for Her Grandchildren
Magic World of Yesterday Article from Chicago's American In 1960, shortly after the publication of her family history in The Generations, Chicago's American, a Hearst newspaper of the day, reports on Julia Bowe reading from her work to [...]
