Funny. . . You don't look Armenian!

When Marash Girl was growing up, and found herself in a group where she felt the need to identify her ethnicity, she would proudly announce, "I'm Armenian!" . . . meaning, of course, that she was of Armenian heritage, born here in the good old U.S.A.
Often, however, the response she received to her annoucement was the following: "Funny, you don't look Armenian!" And why did neither she nor her brother nor her sister (nor her father) (all of whom were blonde and blue-eyed, except for Marash Girl) . . . why did they not look Armenian? According to Marash Girl's father, it was because of the Crusaders who may have only passed through Marash all those many years ago, but, as her father would put it, ". . . they stayed long enough to leave their seed!"

You Don't Want To Lose A Glove During A New England Winter!!

Photo by MarashGirl©2021 This glove awaits its partner on a bench in the park along Greenough Boulevard in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Note on Mummy and Daddy's Wedding: Blog post for January 15 & January 16, 2021

January 15, 2021 Jennie (from an Aintepsi family) and Peter (from a Marashtsi family) were to get married at the Armenian Brethren Church in Watertown, Massachusetts, but on the day of the wedding, so many of the Aintepsis in the Boston community and so many of the Marashtsis in the Boston community showed up for the wedding that just before the wedding was to take place, the couple had to change the venue of the wedding. All of the guests, (both invited and uninvited), the minister, and the couple to be wedded had to drive to the Baptist Church on Western Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a church large enough to contain the hundreds(?) of guests who had arrived to celebrate the couple's union. To the best of our knowledge, the minister that married Jennie and Peter on January 15 of 1940 was Reverend Stengaard. Blog post for January 16, 2021 "A Note on Mummy and Daddy's Wedding" Jennie (from an Aintepsi family) and Peter (from a Marashtsi family) were to get married at the Armenian Brethren Church in Watertown, Massachusetts, but on the day of the wedding, so many of the Aintepsis in the Boston community and so many of the Marashtsis in the Boston community showed up for the wedding that just before the wedding was to take place, the couple had to change the venue of the wedding. All of the guests, (both invited and uninvited), the minister, and the couple to be wedded had to drive to the Baptist Church on Western Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a church large enough to contain the hundreds(?) of guests who had arrived to celebrate the couple's union. To the best of our knowledge, the minister that married Jennie and Peter on January 15 of 1940 was Reverend Stengaard.