I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a warm summer day in 1960. My great uncle, Frank Carson, was at our house to visit his sister, Marcella Smalley,…
Category: Rhode Island
Five generations and at least 150 years separate these two men. Alexander McDonald Lawson was born in Edinburgh in 1814. On October 9, 1850, he sailed from Glasgow to New…
Providence, Rhode Island in the 1858. “The day, as benefits the season, was very pleasant, the streets were thronged with thousands who came to visit us from the neighboring towns.…
(This is article first appeared in 2011 in the Providence Journal and in the Northern Standard in Monaghan, Ireland). When Federal Hill Was Irish When most Irish-Americans make the trek…