I have really slacked off updating this blog. It’s not that \u00a0haven’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\u00a0in post-independence conservative Catholic Ireland; the\u00a0Magdalen asylum; Britain’s child\u00a0migrant scandal; the\u00a0impact 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\u00a0making 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.<\/p>\n
this piece of loveliness was sent to me by @OBrennaO<\/p>\n