[Magdalen] Our "sh*thole" president.

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
>Sent: Jan 13, 2018 6:08 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Our "sh*thole" president.
>
>My research director's parents were from Taunton, and, as he liked to say, 
>were from a mixed marriage which was a great scandal at the time. You see, 
>his father's family went to the Irish Catholic church, while his mother's 
>family went to the French Canadian Catholic church.
>
>Chad Wohlers
>Woodbury, VT USA
>chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: ME Michaud
>Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 5:21 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Our "sh*thole" president.
>
>Ho boy. I have friends in Rhode Island who are true uberCatholics.
>Extremely devout.
>
>Looked at a house in St. Augustine (Florida). When I saw a crucifix in
>every room AND over the front door and an altar on the sideboard in the
>diningroom, I divined (g) they were from somewhere in the arc of
>Taunton/Fall River/Providence. And so they were.
>
>On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I have met many New Englanders through the years descended from the French
>> Canadian migrations.  I understand that those that stayed by the church
>> raised a distinctly unique group of Roman Catholics between the dogma from
>> Rome, the particular overlay of the French Canadians was quite extreme, 
>> I'm
>> told.
>>
>>
>> 
>
Don't have a sideboard so no altar on the sideboard but there is a cross or crucifix in every room 
Christmas decorations stay up to February 2. Of course I am also Byzantine Catholic and some of my friends are on the old calendar so decorations don't begin to come down until tomorrow which Is Malanke of New Year
s Day Today is New Years Eve so that is actually Malanka (St. Melany's feast) similar to Silvesternacht for the Germans. I like to think that my religious objets are tasteful and not tawdry like the plastic Jesus on the dashboard of your car. Decorations are up more or less soon after Guadalupe through early February--tho we took the Santas in the window down yesterday

Joe