EVA IN 1965: Eva as a sweet toddler, probably age two. Her mother, Barbara Cassidy, is carrying baby Dan.
EVA IN 1966: Eva at age three, with her sister and cousins. From left to right: Margret Cassidy, Laura Bligh, Carol Bligh, and Eva Cassidy.Margret and Eva around 1966, at the Bligh house in VirginiaEva at age nine. When Eva’s family moved to Bowie, Maryland in 1972, they were living “in the middle of nowhere.” Today, Bowie is solidly suburban, and the Metro train to downtown Washington, DC, is nearby.CHRISTMAS 1985: Clockwise from top left: Anette Cassidy, Margret Cassidy, Vivien Bligh, and EvaA couple of snapshots from family get-togethers at Thanksgiving. This and the next photo were Polaroids taken in 1988. From left to right, Margret Cassidy, Eva, Vivien Bligh, and Dan Cassidy. Viv says, ‘When I look at that picture I remember Eva said we looked like “a bunch of inbreds” in it! She just meant that we were making funny faces!’Same group, with Isabel Bligh at the back.Eva and cousin Sara Cassidy enjoy some whipped cream. Thanksgiving (?) 1991.This snapshot was taken at Thanksgiving Dinner (or maybe Christmas), 1991. Eva’s sister Margret took the picture and made copies for everyone because we all wanted one.Eva in 1992. From left to right, Barbara Cassidy (Eva’s mother), Eva, and Anette Cassidy (Eva’s oldest sister)STAY OFF THAT ROCKER: Eva’s illustrations were a charming accompaniment to the essays on retirement and aging in this collection of columns written by her grandmother, Clara Cassidy.Eva drew this festive holiday dinner for one of her grandmother’s books, Living the Topmost Years by Clara Cassidy. “Grandma Deedee” died in 1999 at the age of 97.Eva with her grandmother and cousin Martha Cassidy in the mid-1990s.Eva painted this wooden box as a gift for Clara Cassidy. The swan looks similar to the one on the TIME AFTER TIME clock.Eva with her Aunt Isabel and Chris Biondo, early 1990s. Eva’s sister Margret took this snapshot.Eva with her niece Sarah Kass in 1993. This is the same “Baby Sarah” whose arrival was eagerly anticipated in the 1992 drawing featured on the Eva Cassidy Artwork site.Eva painted a mural of the sun and the moon in a narrow hallway in her parents’ house in Bowie, MD.HUGH CASSIDY’S WORKSHOP: Eva’s father’s sculpture studio. The giant luna moth was crafted from scrap metal, his favorite medium.BOWIE ANGEL: Hugh Cassidy’s sculpture of Eva as an angel is seen here in its full garden setting.Eva with her parents, Barbara and Hugh Cassidy, early 1990sChristmas 1970. From left to right, Eva, Dan, Margret, and Anette.Christmas 1974. Mostly notable because you can see Eva playing the autoharp in the top right corner. She would have been 11. And I’m next to her holding my flute. We are both wearing horrible plaid pants that were probably made of polyester. You can also see the back of Martha Cassidy, Aunt Kim Cassidy holding baby Dana, and Isabel Cassidy Bligh.From 1954. From left to right, Clara Cassidy, John Cassidy, Isabel Cassidy (playing baritone ukulele, or maybe tenor guitar), Lew Cassidy, and Hugh Cassidy (Eva’s father).
More odds and ends
Family snapshot taken at Laura’s wedding in 1989. Seated, Barbara Cassidy and Vivien Bligh. Standing, Eva, Dan, and Margret Cassidy.
Some people just can’t get enough of Eva photos, regardless of photo quality, so as I come across any, I’m sharing them here. Most are Polaroids. Eva and Dan 1987
Summer 1989 Eva in the summer of 1989 (presumably the same day as the photo below, with her mother and Dan)
March 28, 2020: Here’s another never-before-seen photo from a family album. Left to right, Laura Bligh, Margret Cassidy, Eva Cassidy, Carol Bligh. Summer 1965 is my best guess.
Eva at Mountain Lake Camp in Fannettsburg, PA, in 1977
Here’s another snapshot of Eva, which came to me unexpectedly. In 1977, Eva and her cousin Vivien Bligh went to Mountain Lake Camp in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. Eva must have been 14. One of her fellow campers, Sharon French, recently discovered this among her old pictures. Many thanks to Sharon and her mother Bobbie for permission to share it here. Bobbie contacted me through the Guestbook.
Dan, Barbara, and Eva, 1989
I just came across this terrific snapshot of Eva with her mother Barbara and brother Dan. I believe it was taken at an engagement party for her sister Anette, given by my parents in 1989. (Martha Cassidy now owns that painting.)
Posted during the pandemic: Here’s a never-before-seen photo of Eva from Christmas 1985, to cheer everybody up. Christmas snapshot, 1985
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