About

John Daniel Maher was born in 1972 and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts. He is a musician, and attended the University Of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he studied Music Business. He has worked in radio, has taught music at a Catholic elementary and middle school, and was the music director at St. Ann's church in Somerville, Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2004. He left in the fall of 2004 to pursue other career opportunities so that he could have more time on holidays and weekends to spend with his growing family. He currently works on the North Shore of Massachusetts at a web design and search engine marketing company. John still plays music at a 6pm Sunday evening Mass at a local Catholic church, and continues to sing and play piano, sax, and guitar.

Ellen Elizabeth Maher was born Ellen Elizabeth Salah, in 1971. She grew up in Melrose and Gloucester, MA, and moved to Ipswich in 1980. She attended Holy Cross, in Worcester, MA, and spent nine years working at the O'Neil Library at Boston College. She married John in 2001, and left BC to stay at home with their son, Ian, in 2004.

Ian Patrick Maher was born in the spring of 2003. He was nine weeks premature, due to Ellen developing pre-ecclampsia, and was 2 pounds, 15 1/4 ounces at birth. After spending almost seven weeks in the hospital (Beth Israel in Boston, followed by Winchester Hospital), he finally came home. He loves trains, is very creative, and loves making music with his father (he enjoys playing his harmonica and recorder). John also thinks he shows promise with his plastic golf clubs.

Anna Charlotte Maher was born in the early spring of 2005. She is a very happy baby, and is becoming more mobil by the day. She has recently started walking, and her new-found mobility and higher perspective is allowing her to explore her surroundings more, so she is walking all over the house and finding new things to get into.