Pilfering food for her sickly máthair, Aisling O'Quinn wanders amidst the filth-ridden cobbled streets of Five Points, Manhattan. A matron of the Children's Aid Society catches her and considers it her civic duty to force the twelve-year-old onto an orphan train to a "better life". Though Five Points is a notorious slum, with its rag-picker alleys and bandit haunts, she desperately misses the one-room tenement at the bend on Mulberry Street that overflowed with love and laughter. On the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg, as Northern and Southern military troops are gathering, Aisling O'Quinn musters the courage to escape the dreadful farm where she lives. Not even the fear of capture as a runaway fades her intense longing to reunite with her máthair. Can Aisling overcome the influence of her disastrous past? Is she strong enough to take control of the drastic changes and unfortunate circumstances she is about to face? Will her unresolved memories cripple her?
The work being done there so impresses Sarah that she volunteers to help out however she can—with clothes, with medical assistance, with the organization of a benefit dinner.
Delia: Formerly the Bluebird of Mulberry Bend
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In standard histories of housing , the roots of slum clearance are treated only tangentially and parenthetically , as if the New Deal public housing and urban planning initiatives were a brand - new strategy .
The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
See, for example: Christopher Lasch, ed., The Social Thought ofJaneAddams (New York: Irvington Publishers, 1982); James Livingston, Pragmatism and the Political Economy of a Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of ...
EP 11 INDIA ARE UZGER BEER This early - 1900s image shows a great many parkgoers hanging around and relaxing in Mulberry Bend Park . Certainly a percentage of the park patrons seen here had been former residents of the recently ...
Reproduction of the original: The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. Riis