Discovering US History from my Grandfather’s Political Pins & Ribbons
11 min readFeb 22, 2020
Who was Underwood? Smith? Ella?
My paternal grandfather was a “Canadian, Scottish, Irish Catholic” newspaper man. Like many born in 1910, he never went to college. He went straight to work for the local Waterbury, Connecticut newspaper, where he was a Sunday editor. He became a political reporter and consultant to the New…