This portrait of my great-great grandmother, Catherine Justice Coffin has been a bit of a mystery. It looks like a painting, but there is no evidence, no record, that her portrait was ever painted. She died at the age of …
Saturday, Aug. 29, 1885. The idea of keeping the family diary was suggested by a newspaper article, and the purpose is to chronicle the doings, happenings and incidences of the family, and is to include all matters of …
This oil portrait of Zebulon B. Coffin, my second great grandfather, has hung in my living room since shortly after we moved into this house in 1983. Before that it spent I don’t know how much time in several attics. …