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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Reader) In 1925, Felix Ahearn and Anna McCarron, both from Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest island, meet in Boston, Massachusetts, and fall in love.They marry and settle down in the neighborhood of Roxbury where they raise eight kids (six boys and two girls) through the darkest years of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Though often unemployed, hungry, and poor, they survive the "Hard Times" with love, courage, and sometimes a firm hand. This is the story of that family as told by their oldest son Aloysius.
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Al Ahearn, a Depression kid, is a retired Army major, a retired teacher of English, and a former state representative in Connecticut where he has lived since 1960. He gardens, sings old songs, enjoys weekly poker games, and conducts a memoir class at the University of Connecticut. |
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