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Poster:	AltheaRose	Date:	June 20, 2012 09:19:03pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: First Peggy-O recording

Uh, my nephew went there. And he's a great fisherman. (Fisherkid.) And my son the Irish-o-phile was really jealous and wished he could go too. Does that count?

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Poster:	William Tell	Date:	June 20, 2012 09:29:35pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: First Peggy-O recording

Sure; everyone's Irish if they want to be (we always allow it, since, like as with most minority join ups, they rarely mean it...har, har).

But, I forget--is there something to your knowledge and the family's interest beyond this factoid that I've forgotten? Mc and I go way back, and my "real" name would be more indicative of my roots, but can't recall if we've chatted before about it all...

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Poster:	AltheaRose	Date:	June 20, 2012 10:50:07pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: First Peggy-O recording

Yeah, Irish on my dad's side. Irish Appalachian. So that's pre-potato famine (actually pre-Revolutionary War), but still, whiskey in a jar is about right. Great-grandpappy ran a still. (Really.)

Not Catholic, though (which could be a problem, eh?), but the same brilliant Irish tendency to manage to be poor under any circumstances. (Hey lads! It's the 1700s and the country is full of open, fertile land that could make us rich for generations! No, THAT'S not comfortable. Let's keep on moving west until we find the most hardscrabble place we can possibly find to put up a still ...)



This post was modified by AltheaRose on 2012-06-21 05:50:07