Thank you Teresa! ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:51 PM Subject: [BEARA] Sullivan ancestors as miners Growing up on a farm in Nebraska, I knew all the Sullivan's  around us were from Ireland and then Michigan.  But I guess I always  thought that they had a little farm in Michigan before buying railroad land in  Neb. My father was born in 1887 and died in 1979 when I was 49 so  you would have thought that thru all that time I would have heard about mining  in Michigan.  But I didn't. When I found this out I asked an old man that lived in our  little farming town if he had know that.  "Oh sure,  Can I tell you  about what my dad said?"  "Sure"  "Well when those Irish boys decided  to get limestone rock from the quarry (this is in a nearby town) for their house  foundations they went to the quarry and didn't like the size of the pieces that  the man there was blasting.  And so those guys got the blasting powder and  the drills and they just blasted the hell out of that quarry.  My dad said  that when they were finished they had enough small rock laying around that they  could have rocked every road in Lancaster County." Teresa Sullivan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message