Posts tagged Lagro

September 30, 2013

Fighting Irish Along The Canal

Irish canal workers tried to ensure that as many men as possible from their own parts of Ireland were hired onto work crews; conflicts inevitably arose.

Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton-Porter’s novel, A Girl of the Limberlost, was published in 1909. Although best know for her fiction, she wrote her novels as a way of supporting her non-fiction books about nature.