Kennedy Family Home

Here follows an excerpt from the Fall 2007 edition of the "Franconia Legacies" newsletter as published by the Franconia Museum:

Letter written by Virginia Kennedy Beck:
I have been reading the Franconia Remembers, Volumes I and II, and find it a bit overwhelming to see places and names with which I am familiar -especially, that of my father, R. Lee Kennedy (Vol. II, p. 12). To be completely accurate, my father suffered both smoke inhalation and a heart attack as a result of the fire. How well I remember that night. "Daddy" was President of the Fire Department at the time, Aug. 19, 1950.

Following my birth in 1937, I lived in a bungalow at the comer of Bernard Street and Edgewood, adjacent to the Facchina property, in a Guilford subdivision. After 1951, I lived in Belle View and in Groveton; in 1955, I returned to Franconia (Bush Hill) for about five months. Forty-seven years would pass before I saw the area again. "My" first house was still there!