Emmett, Jack of All Trades
Emmett, Tim, Brian, and Mark; 1950s in Copenhagen. Emmett, Jack of All Trades Taking what they're giving 'cause I'm workin' for a livin'. Teaching is a noble profession, but the pay could be better. My grandfather Emmett Fenlon worked a wide variety of jobs to supplement his teaching income to make ends meet. In this blog post I will provide a list of these summer and moonlighting jobs and share some stories his children told me about them. I would like to thank Brian for providing the idea for this post and everyone for all of their help in composing it. The jobs are listed below in somewhat chronological order, but exact dates are not know for many of them. Crouse-Hinds in Syracuse In the war years the family would spend the summers in Syracuse at 123 Woodland Ave., with my great-grandparents John and Janet Treacy. (Previous posts about the Woodland Ave home can be found here and here .) During these summers Emmett worked at the Crouse-Hinds facility that w
