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From: Pat Wood <>
Subject: Re: [NY IRISH] Dominican nuns
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:29:21 -0800


Hi

Any one familiar with the Dominicans of Sparkhill?

My family own that property and sold it to the nuns ... but I have no
idea when.

I have a picture of my g'parents and uncle as a small boy sitting on the
grass in front of the house.


On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:34:02 -0800 Pat Connors <>
writes:
> We had the Dominican sisters at Holy Family School, New Rochelle.
> We
> had art and music and they seemed light hearted. Every year in the
> late
> spring we made a trip to their mother home in Beacon NY, right on
> the
> Hudson. It was like a carnival and we always had a great time.
>
> In high school, at St. Gabriels we had the Sisters of Charity.
> They
> seem much stricter and poorer than the Dominicans....by then that is
> a
> young girl's impression.
>
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