Poetic Obituaries: "Get in the car," [Eileen] Kennedy recalled

her mother [Eileen Regan] saying at the start of their beach sojourns. "We're going to the Shore. We're going to find a place to rent and everybody will get jobs."

Eileen was a devoted reader whose tastes tended to the classics and poetry. The children had to memorize poetry, and the aforementioned family dog was named after Emily Dickinson.

That was an embarrassment to son Timothy. "How could he tell his friends the dog was named after a poet?" Kennedy said.

from Philadelphia Daily News: Eileen Regan, 81, artist and beach-lover

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