By Charles R. Hale I’ve often wondered what it must be like to live one’s entire life in a small town, surrounded by the same sights and sounds, day after day. And now I realize that my ancestors, living in the crowded and congested tenements of lower Manhattan, shared a parallel existence with those who…
Irish Immigrants
JIM RODGERS' ANCESTORS: FAMINE IMMIGRANTS WHO BUILT NYC
In stories I’ve written and in videos I’ve produced I’ve commented on my famine-Irish immigrant ancestors. They were the sandhogs who dug New York City’s tunnels, the bartenders who worked the saloons that lined the Bowery and the street sweepers who cleaned the city. What were they like, the earlier generations that wandered the streets, slept…