Irish America magazine - Oct/Nov '02 issue: Frontier House, John B. Keane, The Irish File, Blink, Endgame in Ireland, Irish Cider, Rosemary Clooney, NYC’s Famine Memorial, The Irishman who would be King, Liam Neeson
An Irish American family go back to 1883 to discover what's most important
in the present.
What could be more parental than to wish to show your children how good
they have it today? To take your family into the past and give them a taste
of real life, when necessity stared you straight in the face and your mettle
was tested by the sometimes-cruel vicissitudes of nature?
For Gordon Clune, the son of an Irish father, and Adrienne Clune, an
immigrant from County Wicklow, fantasy became a reality when their family
was picked out of 5000 applicants to go back 118 years and spend five months
as homesteaders in Montana.
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