Happy Father’s Day from Ridgway

Meet Joseph Eagen, a member of the Irish Eagen clan and the former Eagen Hardware family.

This is Joseph Eagen, who served in the signal corp in WW2 over in Italy. This ashtray is called trench art.

This entry is shorter than many of my others, because this was a last minute idea. I have been hard at work on another project.

That man, Joseph Paul Eagen was my grandfather. I called him Pop Pop. He was born on September 4, 1917, during the First World War. He grew up in a beautiful, yellow house on Elk Avenue in Ridgway. That house is registered as a Pennsylvania Historic Landmark. I remember visiting one of my great aunts, when I was four years old, in that house and the grandeur was intimidating. The woodwork inside came from the Hyde Company, another former Ridgway institution. .