Tag Archives: Chris Carver

The Voice of the House Named Gleniffer

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The house named Gleniffer is for sale. I wonder if Chris can really walk away. He’s been in love with the old house for almost six decades. Gleniffer was named by her builders and first residents, Scottish immigrants, the only other family ever to live here. And isn’t the lusty roar of Big Ethel, Chris’s favorite pipe organ, the voice of Gleniffer herself?

Tracing the Plane Crash of 1944 Down Post Street

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You can still see the patchwork where a fighter plane engine tore through Millard McGhee’s apartment and killed him while he stood shaving. Pilots Jack Egar and James Cope meant to “buzz” Egar’s mother’s house. They both died in the swath of destruction their planes left along Post Street.