The Night Watchman
Fresh out of the Navy at 26, Jack takes a stab at being a night watchman.
Africa International House Lunch
Africa International House Lunch in Support of the 2023 African Festival of Arts in Washington Park Editor's Note: Chicago Mayoral Candidate Paul Vallas stopped in At The Cliff Dwellers on March 3, 2023 to help Africa International House [...]
Fake News at the 115th Annual Meeting
Fake News at the 115th Annual Members' Meeting Editor's Note: On January 10, 2022, during the Omicron stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Cliff Dwellers held its first ever "hybrid" Annual Members' Meeting. For the first time in a [...]
2021-20 Margaret Elizabeth Canavan & John Dominic Casey (Lynches & Gwinns)
Margaret Elizabeth Canavan & John Dominic Casey (Lynches & Gwinns) If you follow these light green tags, you can see that the last of the 13 children of Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes is Margret Elizabeth Canavan. [...]
2021-19 William Joseph Parish
William Joseph Parish Catherine Parish Skura and William Wallace Parish III are well represented here tonight by members of the Skura, Grubert and Parish families. Pictured on the left of this family tree are the Skura and Grubert [...]
2021-18 Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II
Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II The Parish family tree shows that Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes’s daughter Catherine Canavan married William Wallace Parish II. They raised their family in Momence, Illinois. Their third of four [...]
2021-16 Patrick Canavan & Elizabeth Larkin (Hanley & Dunn)
Patrick Canavan & Elizabeth Larkin (Hanley & Dunn) Now, here’s the Hanley family tree. Patrick Canavan was the seventh child born to Anthony Canavan, Sr. and Ann Hughes. He married Elizabeth Larkin and their daughter Elizabeth Canavan married [...]
2021-14 Maureen Hart & Jerald Duhn (Tom, Erik, Michael & Stephen)
Maureen Hart & Jerald Duhn (Tom, Erik, Michael & Stephen) Maureen Hart's marriage to Jerald Duhn brings along Thomas, Erik, Michael and Stephen Duhn. Their children Erik and Michael are with us tonight.
2021-01 “Aren’t Families Wonderful!”
"Aren't Families Wonderful!" Editor's Note: In this introduction to the talk I gave at our gala Reunion dinner, I set out to explain to the assembled how they were all related to one another. With the lockdown's separation [...]
