My great-grandmother, Mary Cvinar Solensky, and my grandmother, Mary Solensky Durkin, shortly after arriving in America from Czechoslavakia in 1911 or 1912. My grandfather had already been living here. My grandmother, born in 1907, would have been around 4 years old.
This stunning photo of my grandmother, Mary Solensky Durkin, was taken in the 1920s. She has grown up quite a bit since the 1911(ish) photo to the left. From sailor suit to sable fir...wow, she was a beautiful woman.