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Mexico Road Videos & Presentations
Mexico Road Frisbie House Herkimer County Historical Society with Stan Grose. Our first presentation! Download the Powerpoint...

Patricia Reilly
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Patricia Reilly
Jul 50 min read
A Likely Story!
How unlikely, to wander alone through an abandoned cemetery in a little city you know only as a visitor, and to kneel at the etched...

Patricia Reilly
Jul 39 min read
The Key in the Door
The old green station wagon complained its way down Clinton Avenue, past the boarded-up brownstones with the stoops ripped off. Here and...

Patricia Reilly
Jul 35 min read
My singer Sewing Machine
“I can’t sew on a button,” my mother used to like to say. Consequently, we didn’t have a pin cushion nor a needle and thread nor a pair...

Patricia Reilly
Jul 36 min read
The Butcher of Leschi Lives!
March 21, 2020 Our little local grocery in Leschi, Seattle Lost its butcher last night. Quick. Only a few days ago, from the woman behind...

Patricia Reilly
Jul 32 min read
Rivers Run Through Them
The Mighty Hudson, at Albany, was fed, in the old days, by streams that flowed out of the hills, to the left and right of the town, and...

Patricia Reilly
Jul 37 min read
Cousins
The twins, Billy and Bobby, had been allowed to have breakfast with their cousin Mary, in her bedroom: toast and tea, oatmeal and a bowl...

Patricia Reilly
Jul 36 min read


The Donahue/Segrave Story
First of all, Gram was a Donahue. She said it, “Dun uh hoo.” She was born in Albany, New York, on the 16th of June in 1859, but she spoke...

Patricia Reilly
Apr 20, 202311 min read


Ballyhest with John Reilly's Family
John and Suzie Reilly brought me with them and their sons, Patrick and Eamon, to visit Bill's cousins in Tipperary. Kevin Nagle, on the...

Patricia Reilly
Nov 20, 20221 min read


Ballyhest with Terry's Family
Terry and Jeanne and their kids, Aidan, Brendan and Maeve, brought me with them for our first trip to visit Bill Reilly's cousins in...

Patricia Reilly
Nov 20, 20221 min read


Two Heads
I saw them the moment I left my office. They were standing at the end of the hall by the elevator, their two heads together, the blonde...

Patricia Reilly
Sep 25, 20223 min read



Patricia Reilly
Apr 10, 20220 min read


Art by Irish artist, Tony Oakey, Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary
By the banks of the Suir, 2019 Tony Oakes, artist. Visit his website: https://www.tonyoakeyart.com/ This is Tony Oakley, artist who...

Dane Wilson
Apr 10, 20221 min read


"The Rose Of Mooncoin"
This song describes the banks of the River Suir, where our ancestors once lived.

Patricia Reilly
Apr 10, 20221 min read


Anne, An Irish Princess
My mother was an Irish princess Not that her people had money, but anyhow They gave her kid slippers and a high school diploma And a...

Patricia Reilly
Mar 20, 20222 min read


The Stairway at 185 Elk Street
This is not the stairway at 185 Elk, but it reminds me of it.

Patricia Reilly
Mar 20, 20222 min read


John O'Hara: The Cabin I Built
Now, then, I recall the day in 1851 I brought my bride, Mary Haggerty, home to the log cabin I built on the Mexico Road. The cabin was...

Patricia Reilly
Feb 20, 20226 min read


John O'Hara arrives at Mexico Road
Springtime, before 1850 The words of John O'Hara, reimagined The Trail I’ve been following the logging trail through these Adirondack...

Patricia Reilly
Feb 20, 202210 min read