2016.103.001

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
Core
Title
Genevieve Martinonis Kania
Accession No.

This is an oral history interview (audio only) with 97 year old Genevieve Martinonis Kania at her home in Brooksby Village, Peabody, MA recorded on September 7, 2016.  Jonas Stundzia is the interviewer with Amita Kiley recording.  The interview focuses on various aspects of Lithuanian life, church, and culture in Lawrence, MA.

 

 

Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
Date (created)
2016-09-07
Language
English
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2024.022

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
Donor
Mary Jane Herbert
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Wetherbee School graduation class photo, undated, probably 1903 or 1904
  • Photograph – Knights of St. Patrick’s, undated 
  • Set of Lawrence Public Schools manuals for the years 1936, 1938, 1940, 1944-1955, 1957, 1960
In Memory of
Catherine and Abigail Bateman

2024.021

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
8451
Donor
Brian Farrell
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Gift
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Framed portrait of Katherine O’Keeffe
  • 2 photos of JFK in Lawrence, MA
  • AOH program
  • panoramic photograph of the "Second Annual Outing by the John McBride Branch F.O.I.F. Juniper Park, Aug. 22, 1920"

2024.024

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
Donor Organization
Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Andover (UUCIA)
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picked up by Amita Kiley at Church
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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Engraved Communion set, guest book, hymnals, inscribed Bible, church charter, engraved communion table

In Memory of
Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Andover (UUCIA)

2024.023

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
8459
Donor
Leslie Scott
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via UPS
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Gift
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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      Donated via USPS on February 7, 2024, accessioned on March 6, 2024

  • Two photo reproductions made from 120 black and white negatives taken along Essex Steet in the late forties or fifties by Franklin Chace Scott. One is of a captured Japanese submarine on public display, and the other is of snow-covered cars at the intersection of Broadway and Essex St.

    Donated via USPS on April 19, 2024, accessioned on May 1, 2024

  • Negatives (120 format) of the exterior and possible interior of the Essex County Jail; the Japanese War Bonds submarine, and the Freedom Train
In Memory of
Franklin Chace Scott

2024.020

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
8450
Donor Organization
New Boston Historical Society
Received From
Lisa Rothman via USPS
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Gift
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Grand Lodge of MA Mason certificate made out to Wilfred Barlow of Lawrence, dated March 12, 1915
In Memory of
New Boston Historical Society

2024.019

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
CRM Contact ID
8458
Donor
Fred Caratini
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Gift
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Book, “The Times of Our Lives”, written by the donor and published in 2018 (autographed)

2024.017

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
Donor
Joan Kelley
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Gift
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Kiley, Amita
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  • Pamphlet "Selected Prose and Poetry" Lawrence Public Schools, 1960

 

2024.016

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
Donor
Katherine Heffernan
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Joan Kelley
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Gift
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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  • 2 WWII ration books, issued to Kimball, 120 Lexington St., Lawrence, MA (age 2 1/2) and to her mother Helen Kimball, 120 Lexington St., Lawrence, MA (age 25).  Both books are stamped.

2024.013

Created:
Author: Amita Kiley
Donor
Atty. Anthony DiFruscia
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Gift
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Kiley, Amita
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Kiley, Amita
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Oral history interview (filmed on iPad) in which Atty. DiFruscia provides an overview of his life and career; interview conducted by Yadira Betances and donor’s daughter, Atty. Kara Andrews.  View oral history here:  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/7zbtvollzcsvwa6l3ntck/h?rlkey=as0myv2dww…