Finnigans, Slaters, and Stonepeggers: A History of the Irish in Vermont Books In Those Turbulent Sons of

In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

Political and military leaders on both sides viewed the Hudson River Valley as the American jugular

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this novel gives an up-close view of the Westminster Massacre

Finnigans, Slaters, and Stonepeggers: A History of the Irish in Vermont Books In Those Turbulent Sons ofThe first book that peels back the Yankee mythos and examines the surprisingly rich, true story of the Irish in Vermont, from the first steady trickle of colonial pioneers to the flood of famine refugees and onward. From Fort Ticonderoga to Civil War battlefields to up until the years after World War II: how the Irish arrived, survived, fought, labored, organized, worshipped, played, and managed to prosper . . . a surprisingly behind the scenes