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Everything's Relative July 2008
7/1/2008
The lighter side of family history.

Public Office Politics

We knew only one story about my great-grandmother's Irish family. Her grandfather had given a piano to the Catholic church. But then a yellowed newspaper clipping — an 1888 article reprinted in the 1919 Lawrenceburg [Ind.] Register — revealed the family patriarch devoted himself to more than the church:

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