Outcasts – Escaping The Great Hunger in Ireland
The McGee and Carney families are outcasts in County Down, Ulster. They flee the Great Hunger in Ireland for a new home in America.
Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
Category History
One Hazard of Engineering College – The Stinky Student
The stinky Engineering College student would come to class just before it started, or he would be late. He would find a seat and then the seat shuffle started.
Love My Blended Family in the American Revolution
We think of blended families as a modern phenomenon, but they were pretty standard in Colonial times. I wrote a story based on historical records of my ancestor Arthur Parr and his relatives during the American Revolution. Arthur had four…
Remembering “The Disappeared”
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo On our tour of Buenos Aires, we were taken to the Plazo de Mayo. This is a square in the center area of Buenos Aires near Casa Rosada. Casa Rosada is the pink building…
Grenada
St. George’s, Grenada Grenada and my high school friend, Mike, are forever linked in my mind. This is my first visit to Grenada, but when I was in college, Grenada was on the news. I walked into the student cafeteria…