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Fourth of July

Photo Album: As American as Apple Pie

Submitted by Ellen (Faron) Powers, Millbury, Massachusetts
June / July 2002

June 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Proud of their country and their new house, Lawrence and Blanche Faron hosted the Faron family's first July 4th clambake at their home in Millbury, Massachusetts in 1941. Lawrence's grandfather Peter Faron (Fern) had emigrated to the United States as a boy with his mother and six siblings from Kileary, County Armagh, in May 1853, six months after his father, Michael. Michael … [Read more...] about Photo Album: As American as Apple Pie

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