Thursday, November 5, 2026 · 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Community Room — 100 Blackstone St., Bellingham, MA
The Photo Angel (a.k.a. Kate Kelley) is on a mission is to reunite long-lost photos with their relatives. The project has been featured on NBC’s The Today Show, Family Tree Magazine, The Boston Globe, WCVB’s Channel 5 Boston’s “Chronicle,” “Who Do You Think You Are” magazine and several other news media outlets. It all began with a pile of labeled photos of non-relatives that were mixed in with my grandparents’ old family pictures. Were they friends? Classmates? War buddies? Neighbors? I was determined to find out. So I started poking around genealogy websites and immediately began connecting with relatives of the photographed. Now I’m hooked! I love to visit antique stores to thumb through their pictures in my quest to find those that are labeled so that I may return them to their family members. One woman affectionately dubbed me, “The Photo Angel.” The purpose of this project is to inspire others to dig out their dusty attic boxes and visit antique stores for photos with identifying information to reunite with families. Bio: I am in my 25th year of teaching as a highly qualified, professionally licensed (Pre-K-8), special education teacher in the Plainville Public Schools…