For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.
My grandfather died under house arrest.
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
My grandfather went through a lot in his life.
My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.