1120 and the Bowe, Casey, Lynch, Heffron, Parish, Skura & Riboud Families
1120 and the Bowe, Casey, Lynch, Heffron, Parish, Skura & Riboud Families Tony Bowe asks Bill Bowe to explain why the two Bowe family apartments at the corner of Elm Street and Lake Shore Drive figured so much [...]
Richard Bowe and the 1968 SDS Days of Rage in Chicago
Richard Bowe's Report on the 1968 SDS Days of Rage Violence in Chicago Editor's Note: In a March 14, 2022 interview Tony and I discussed what kind of content might later be added to the www.wbowe.com website. In [...]
France 2022
With the pandemic and lockdown fading fast in the rear view mirror, I proposed to my son Pat that he join me in visiting our cousins in France this summer.
Tony Bowe
Tony Bowe Editor's Note: Tony Bowe set the birthday party in motion, and earlier had been the first to encourage a more ambitious attempt at a website broadly of interest to my extended family. He and his wife [...]
Charley Bowe
Charley Bowe Editor's Note: Charley Bowe arranged to host the party at the Wilmette Harbor Club and he and June arranged the decorations with Tony and Nancy Bowe. Charley recalled that I was his godfather, in a good way, [...]
Pat Bowe
Pat Bowe E Editor's note : Pat Bowe was a key member of the secret cabal that tried and failed to throw a surprise party for my 80th birthday. Leaders Tony and Cathy Bowe tasked Charley Bowe with organizing [...]
MGB (1903-18): Deal, Tacks and Sisters
Editor's Note: With financial help from Richard Gwinn, Jr. and his sister, Mary Cornelia Gwinn, a house at 58 Sydney Avenue in Deal, New Jersey was purchased and run by their mother as a rooming house. This becomes my mother's summer home.
MGB (1901-02): The Early Years before Deal
Editor's Note: In this clip, Tony Bowe asks about my mother's childhood. When her mother, Agnes Roche Gwinn dies giving birth to her in 1901, I explain how my mother came to be largely raised by her father Richard Gwinn, Jr.'s mother, Elizabeth Agnes Burns Gwinn.