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It’s a Smaller World

My bloodline is divided between my maternal Hibernian roots and my father’s Yankee heritage. My Nana was transported from the West of Ireland across the Atlantic in steerage and my DownEast ancestors sailed with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. Both families held strong convictions about the value of hard work and in 1962 my father […]