Letter to Helen from Bigalow

Name/Title

Letter to Helen from Bigalow

Entry/Object ID

2021.11.96

Scope and Content

Letter from Helen from Bigalow Soes(?) giving thanks for being invited to the Avery's family home and for a donation she made to preserve the family home in Katonah. He talks about fond memories of visiting Katonah arranged by his grandmother 1916 and how at the other end of the green lived the Avery's. He recalls Mr. Arthur Avery as vivacious and visiting him was a high point of his stay in Katonah. He mentions how Mr. Avery's Volenteer Fire Fighter capatin's helmut and horn always hung at the front door and how Mr. Avery would let him try it on as a boy.