Following Edward’s death in 1922, great grandmother Annie continued to live at the family home at 541 East D Street. Daughter Helen remained with her, studying music with prominent musicians in the region until mid 1926, then spending two years in Vienna. Returning in 1928, Helen lived at home as she built the Pomona orchestraContinue reading “Linked Memories: The Grass Beneath Our Feet”
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Linked Memories: Irrigation Day
Memories of the citrus grove at our grandparents’ home at 501 North Vine Ave in Ontario, California shed light on our ancestry. One evening during a visit in the mid 1960s a tractor came down the alleyway and proceeded to plow trenches along the length of the grove. The entire process took perhaps an hour.Continue reading “Linked Memories: Irrigation Day”
Helen’s Orchestra
After the death of Edward Sandford in October 1922, his wife, Annie, and their daughter, Helen, remained in the family home at 541 East D Street in Ontario, California. Helen, who we knew as Aunt Honey (our grand aunt), was 24 in 1922. Census and city directory entries through the 1920s list Helen initially asContinue reading “Helen’s Orchestra”
Bridging the Silences 