Jan 242019
I still get google alerts for key words / concepts from our books on Father John Joseph Hogan and the Irish Wilderness in Missouri’s pre-Civil War Ozarks (Mystery of the Irish Wilderness and On the Mission in Missouri). As we all know, the crawling algorithms that search out those key words can pull up references that have a tenuous link – if any at all – to the topic you’re following. Such is the case with Google and “Irish Wilderness.” The combination of those two words has opened my eyes to the fact that the ‘auld sod’, the “emerald isle,” the old home place of myth and (foggy) memory …. has its own still-wild places and its own brand of hardy souls who inhabit said landscape. The most recent alert brought me this from the UK’s Daily Mail:
Not quite the alert I was looking for ….but an interesting read nevertheless!
