HU Issue No. 50 (Apr-Jun 1999)

Articles:
Robert Forest Harney (1939-1989), author, and creator of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, Canada.
Another Ben Harney.  Tony Award recipient for the musical "Dreamgirls."
More on Benjamin Robertson Harney - follow-up article to last month.
The U.S. Cavalry and Duncan's Brigade - confrontation with Chief Black Hawk (& Harneys who served in the Brigade).
Roll of Honor - Union Soldiers, named Harney, killed in the Civil War (and where they are buried).
National Road - America's first and most historic federally funded highway.   Nostalgia House, Inc. offers the first set of
    four (4) fine art prints.  There are plans for a total of 12 fine art prints along the National Road.
    Contact: David M. Harney, P.O. Box 468, Fort Scott, KS 66701.

  Overseas:
The Luck of the Irish!!
Gold Discovery - Australia.  The 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition (and Harneys who signed it).
John Harney, England, editor of the humorous magazine "Magonia" which deals with strange phenomena.

  Announcements:
Sports: Joe Harney, Defense man with the Wheeling (WV) Nailers.
Marriage: John Francis Xavier Harney to Mary Hope Dugard, Concord, MA.
Deaths:  David Moran Harney, 12 Nov 1998, well known medical malpractice lawyer, and author.
    John Thomas Harney, 4 Dec 1998, Phoenix AZ.  Retired from 30 years with the Duluth Fire Department.
    John Harney, 77, died 8 Jan 1999, Freemantle, Sydney, Australia.   Horse racing business.
    Edgar T. Harney, 88, died 28 Nov 1998, at his home in Lexington, KY.   Retired engineer with GTE.
    Delia (Maloney) Harney, 102, died 6 March 1999, at Canton MA.
    Patrick 'Paki' Harney, 72, died 14 March 1999, Dublin, Ireland.   He lived in the thatched home which was the subject
        of the poem 'Athlone' by his uncle, John Joseph Harney (see HU 8).  Reprinted below.

Home of the late Patrick 'Paki' Harney. Poet John J. Harney (1902-1978) had the hobby of building and exhibiting replicas of Irish thatched cottages. He immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1922. Above is the Harney home in Ireland, now occupied by the family of the poet's nephew, Patrick 'Paki' Harney. Chart ROMBF.IRE.

ATHLONE <There's a lovely thatched house on the roadside There's a latch you can raise with your thumb It brings to me fond memories And it is out in the Parish of Drum. It was there that I first saw the sunshine It was there that I first made my home In that lovely thatched house on the roadside Just five miles from the Town of Athlone.  A brooklet runs down by the gable To a lake with its neat blustering foam By the lovely thatched house on the roadside Just five miles from the Town of Athlone. The way climbs up on the side-wall And around by the old window pane And nothing would give me more pleasure Than to see the old homestead again. The orchard had fruit in abundance All apples were shiny and red I could reach one out through the window If I climbed up the foot of my bed. 'Twas the gander that I was afraid of When I had no stick nor a stone 'Twas there he would give you the business Five miles from the Town of Athlone.

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