Father of the Man Author Dr. P. L. Colman

Several years ago, at an advanced stage in his own journey, my Dad happened to salvage an envelope of black and white family photos which his Mom, my grandmother, whom we affectionately called ‘Nellie,’ had inexplicably and without much thought or emotion, discarded in the kitchen trash bin. Dad had taken the liberty of retrieving these photos and proceeded to have them all enlarged. Thereafter, during a rare visit (which I will describe later in greater detail), Dad took great pains to identify all of the members of the Colman family, as far back as the late nineteenth century!

Nellie (Moy) Colman was one of five Moy sisters (Mable, Gladys, Alice, Nellie and Blanche – known as Aunt ‘Bunny), also of Auburn, New Hampshire. Nellie’s first husband was Sumner Chase Colman; Sumner was a pipe-fitter at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard during and after World War II. Nellie had an illicit affair with a young man, Bernie Dwire, whom she had met while attending a neighborhood dance, presumably during Sumner’s absence from home on one of those long working stints in Portsmouth. Nellie and Sumner divorced, a sad develop-ment, since they had five healthy sons and not-too-few happy years together on the Auburn farm. Whether they did, indeed, enjoy a measure of marital bliss cannot be easily ascertained. The only one other thing that New England folk are traditionally and typically disinclined to discuss in public other than matters of religion is the issue of sexual intimacy. More than one child has had occasion to wonder how, since sexual intercourse was such a secret, suspicious topic, their parents had managed to bear any children at all.








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