Growing Up with Bootleggers, Gamblers and Pigeons

Read about the amusing antics of a preteen gang growing up in a brawling Pennsylvania mining town during the Great Depression. Relive their youthful enthusiasm, as Patrick Canfield, Slim and Eddie Berrang, and Alex Pautenius steal pigeons from the church tower and sip the altar wine. They hated and continually had conflicts with their arch enemies, the Lithuanians, better know as the “Brollies”. The hatred between the Irish and Lithuanians led to the riot of 1929.