Photoessay #2043 - Regina Zunder

Many thanks to my cousin Mary Ann F who I have worked with very closely on my Maier Zunder paper.  Last November, I traveled to New Haven just to do research and the two of us spent three days on the ground collecting information.  As I reflect on the six months since, I'm surprised what I learned on that trip.  I didn't even know about the devotional exercises controversy before I went.  I didn't know where he lived.

I've been working on these topics since.  I now have spent another two days assembling this paper.  I've added several pictures today including this portrait of Maier Zunder's first wife, Regina.  At the beginning of this day, I had no good image, the picture hung on Mary Ann's living room wall.  But I wrote and asked Mary Ann to take a picture and, with some limited resources and working together, we came up with an image that I could use.  I know that there is still some reflection in the image; maybe Dennis can do with something with it.

So, thanks Mary Ann, as always.  For years, I've referred to her as the 'brains of the operation'.

A picture from November with Marvin, the archivist of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven located the the Ethnic Herictage Center on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University.