Sunday, June 18, 2017

Cork, July 24, 2006

After a breakfast buffet at the Imperial Hotel, we attended two lectures.  One was Margaret O'Keefe on gender issues in Ireland and the other was a lecture on the history of Cork.



Then we had soup and sandwiches at the hotel and left for Blarney Castle where we walked around the gardens and bought gifts at the Blarney Woolen Mills.



We went to Innishannon House for dinner---beautiful along the river with swans and rose bushes.  After a delicious dinner of salmon or beef, we met Alice Taylor, an author and poet who told stories and read poems about living in rural Ireland.
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Between Two Worlds

Most of my life, I've considered it fortunate that I was just ahead of the Baby-boom. Generally, the Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 after the fathers returned from World War II. It was a huge population explosion that has reverberated through American society.

This blog will be part history, part memories, part reflections of a retired teacher, but active "Senior". I have always felt like I straddled two generations forming a bridge. Sometimes I think like a baby-boomer, but sometimes I'm locked into my parents' Depression era thinking. I'm a dichotomy of two eras. But, I'm always ready to try something new---so here I am dipping my toes in the water of Blogworld.