Domestic Diversity, the first book by Lowell Pierson Beveridge, Jr., tells how, not too long after he was born in April 1930, his parents decided he would be called “Pete,” rather than “Junior.” (Tom was born eight years later — minus one day.) In 2005 Diana decided to see if her former nephew, Jesse (adopted […]
(1974 – 2015) Diana was driven, long before i was born, by curiosity. She said that some of her earliest memories were of wondering why something worked the way it did and, if possible, taking it apart to study the insides before reassembling it. When she was old enough to speak and understand conversation around […]
Of Diana’s mother’s seven siblings, only the youngest, Tomasso Frascolla, came to the United States settling in Detroit in the early 20s. After meeting and marrying Raffaella (Lina) Ferro in Italy in 1929 they moved to Worcester, Mass., where he and his family resided for decades until shortly after his death in 1985. Diana’s mother […]
