Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview
...s saying the rosary. But then it started to stir up again and George Fencl comes up behind me and says, “Monsignor, you think you could say another rosary?” (laughter) http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-2.wav Interviewer: Thank you for keeping the lid on that simmering violence in the neighborhood. Devlin: Yeah, we had, we
The Story of Duffy’s Cut
...er 50 lie in a mass grave under the current Paoli-Thorndale line. In their latest book Massacre at Duffy’s Cut, the Watson brothers talk about how the incident at Duffy’s Cut was not a localized case, and that around “twenty thousand Irish immigrant laborers died in industrial projects on railroads
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...ories took place in a Catholic parish in Philadelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his time. During the 1920s, Ascension of Our Lord Parish in the city’s Kensington section sponsored one of the many independent semi-professional baseball teams in Philadelphia. In 1923 the Ascension Catholic Club was in
Elizabeth Sarah Kite papers, 1865-1954 (MC 2)
...1909 to 1918, Kite was employed in the research laboratory at the Vineland Training School, and conducted research in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. She translated Development of Intelligence in Children and The Intelligence of the Feeble-Minded by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon (translation published 1916). She also researched