View from Shanty Pond: An Irish Immigrants Look at Life in a New England Mill Town, 1875-1938

Peter Cassidy of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was a well-known Irish immigrant whose "poor man's rhyme" documented the daily goings-on within one of the largest and most vibrant immigrant communities in New England, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author Joseph Blanchette takes the works of his great-grandfather and wraps it in a rish and colorful historical narritive of the times. A universal story about the common experience of Irish immigrants throughout the Northeast, Cassidy and Blanchette combuine to offer readers a unique, enjoyable and very "Irish" look into our common immigrant past.