Mary Colette describes her 60 year journey as a Sister of Notre Dame.
Category Archives: Family
How I Met Your Mother
Ed falls for a a young Irish immigrant named Patricia. He then travels alone to Ireland and meets her family not knowing he would later return engaged to their daughter.
Nebraska
A father’s journey to visit the site of his son Ryan’s tragic death.
Inheriting an Achill Island Ancestral Home
Storyteller: Patrick Unexpectedly, his Uncle John in Ireland, leaves the family’s generational land to his American nephew. Expenses, living in a rural Irish village, and walking the ground of your ancestors.
Color Doesn’t Define Me
Growing up in Shaker Heights facing racism, forced busing, and love of hockey.
Sister’s Journal
Storyteller: Molly A young woman’s journal was found after her death from breast cancer. This is the story of loss, remembering, and how the words written still speak to the family today.
Growing Up in Westport, Ireland
Storyteller: Peter Listen to what it was like to in the west of Ireland in a large Catholic Family in the 1950s. Crowded dinner table, outhouse, and working parents were the norm. Meeting an American girl at a dance would change his life forever.
West Park circa 1955
Storyteller: Kevin Story about growing up on the west side of Cleveland in the 1950s. Describes what life was like a for a large Irish family in a working class household.
