Both photos of Clarinda were taken on a Sunday, which explains why she was dressed up. It is interesting to note that in the first photo (previous page), her hair is down and mussed up, and her brother's tie is crooked, indicating that they probably had already been to Mass. The church, Immaculate Heart of Mary, was about a one-and-a-half mile walk from the house on Maple Street. In the second photo, her hair is up and done neatly, indicating that she was either on her way to Mass, or was heading home.

The day after I met Dawn Turski at her Maple Street house, she called to tell me that she had walked through Calvary Cemetery and found Clarinda's gravestone. She died, as Clarinda LaRochelle, on March 3, 1995, at the age of 95. Subsequent research on my next visit showed that she married William Joseph Gamache on April 7, 1926, but he died in 1935. Later she married Lawrence R. LaRochelle. I found Clarinda's obituary, and that led me to her son, Lawrence, who lives in nearby Fitchburg. He was very surprised to see the Lewis Hine photos of his mother.

Based on genealogical data on the Internet for the United States and Canada, several newspaper articles and obituaries, and records at the Winchendon Town Hall and public library, I was able to string together quite a bit of Clarinda's family history. My interview with her son filled in some of the other details of her life.