I have really slacked off updating this blog. It’s not that  haven’t been reading, I have. In September I sentenced myself to 6 months of self-imposed poverty. I’ve been reading about poverty. I have suffered through; the Catholic orders run Industrial Schools in post-independence conservative Catholic Ireland; the Magdalen asylum; Britain’s child migrant scandal; the impact of political factionalism and economic exploitation in Appalachia; the 1854 Orphan Train; the New York Labor Movement targeting the end of child labor in cigar making in New York City tenements, and the story of how the SPCA saved a teensy girl named Mary Ellen Wilson, whose horrific plight led to the founding of The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Next up, the Irish Potato Famine.

this piece of loveliness was sent to me by @OBrennaO