Those Beautiful Bodies of Yesteryear
Posted by Kershaw Burbank on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Those Beautiful Bodies of Yesteryear On a balmy spring day in 1880, a seventeen-year-old youth from Ireland’s County Galway arrived at Boston. An orphan with scant formal education, he had spent his meager savings for the transatlantic ship passage. He had neither friends nor close relatives in the United States. He did not even have the promise of a job. But Joseph J. Derham knew he would succeed. America was the golden...read more