Stories

In August 2015, Jon Crowley Jr. and family visited the Church of St. Finbarr on Dunbar Street in Cork County Ireland. This is the church where William Crowley was baptized on June 15, 1812. They arrived at the church just as church was letting out for the day and were ...

Clarence Austin was Chula Vista’s rural mail carrier from 1910 until 1941, when he retired. In the early years, he used a horse-drawn buggy. His predecessor had ridden by horseback, but Clarence preferred a buggy. In the beginning, his route was 18 miles long and served 60 boxes. By the ...

Written by Jerry Crowley What Dad told me years, and years ago: As a child growing up in Boston Dad (Augustus Francis Crowley) sold newspapers and had other odd jobs in a effort to save money for college. His father told him that he would save his money but in ...

Written by Jerry Crowley What I learned for the first time was why my mom Harriett was born in Imperial Valley. Clarence had taken his wife Ella (Freeman) and daughter Thelma to an area near Calexico to raise cantaloupes in 1907! They traveled across the mountains in a horse-drawn wagon. ...