"Caught between long periods of unemployment, the natural ruggedness of the work, and the economic and social inequities of the time, the communities that sprang up around the quarries, particularly Waverly...became slums infested with crime and corruption...there was probably no place in the country that contained so many thieves as Waverly..." (Torres, 56).
Go great-great grandpa. This is the neighborhood where my family settled upon arriving in America from Ireland.
Reblogging an old post. My short story, "Cockfight," (the first story in Tanners and Quarrymen) was just accepted for publication. :-)