• Home
  • About
  • Browse
  • Get Involved
    • TB Stories
    • Saranac Lake in the Time of COVID
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Your Community. Your Museum.
    • Join the Project
  • Resources
  • Historic Saranac Lake
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
  • Home
  • About
  • Browse
  • Get Involved
    • TB Stories
    • Saranac Lake in the Time of COVID
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Your Community. Your Museum.
    • Join the Project
  • Resources
  • Historic Saranac Lake

Carolyn Theresa Parker

Picture
Keywords: West Chazy, Tupper Lake, Sisters of Mercy, 
Interviewed 04/03/2018 by Kayt Gochenaur at Elderwood of Uihlein.
​

Sister Carolyn Theresa Parker was born in West Chazy. She had one sister and four brothers, all older than her. Chazy was a farming community, and Sister Carolyn remembers making a lot of maple syrup, and her mother’s maple candy. She attended the one room school house in Chazy. She left Chazy to go to Dobbs Ferry where she attended Mercy College, and there became a Sister of Mercy. After graduating she went to Mount Kisco to study to become a Medical Technologist. From Mount Kisco she came to Tupper Lake where she ran the local lab. In 1971 Sister Carolyn went to Irelend following Sister of Mercy founder Sister Catherine (recording says Kathleen), a trip which Sister Carolyn remembers very fondly. Of her experience in Tupper Lake, she says it was, “Absolutely wonderful. I made a lot of friends in Tupper Lake. I had a good life.”

​Interview audio may be edited  or redacted for  clarity and/or privacy.  Audio is  part of the Oral History Collection at Historic Saranac Lake.

Contact Us

89 Church Street Suite 2
Saranac Lake NY 12983
​mail@historicsaranaclake.org
518-891-4606
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
  • Browse
  • Get Involved
    • TB Stories
    • Saranac Lake in the Time of COVID
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Your Community. Your Museum.
    • Join the Project
  • Resources
  • Historic Saranac Lake