"Devine, James" wrote: > > I wrote: > > >No. Most of my relatives (on McConnell's side) came over from > > >Ireland during the potato famine (and developed into pretty > > >safe "lace curtain" Irish, i.e., WASPs). BTW, McConnell's > > >stepfather (my aunt's husband) was Sterling Hayden. > > Ken: > > I am damn impressed > > > > (1) That you can pull this information out with nary a blink! > > (I barely > > remember my great parents.) > > I only remember the relatives who are interesting.
I had a great uncle who organized sheepherders for the IWW in Montana! I met him only once when (for reasons I can't remember) I stayed a few days with a great aunt, & he was living with her at the time. He had turned atheist while in grade school, and his parents (stern baptists) refused to send him to high school (the equivalent then of college now), so he was self-educated. He owned copies of both the Communist Manifesto and Stalin's Foundations of Leninism. Carrol
