Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat

During Ireland’s Great Famine, in the 1840’s, the potato crops were struck with blight and turned to rotten mush in the fields.   For poor tenant farmers, who for generations had planted potatoes as their only crop, the blight spelled disaster.  Without food to fed their families, or a crop to sell for money to buy [...]