When in downtown Boston, one must walk the aptly-named Freedom Trail, which passes many of the greatest landmarks of American history.  Near the site of the Boston Massacre and across the street from Old South Meeting Hall is a small square with a memorial to the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.  On one pedestal is a family in Ireland, starving, in rags, at the point of death.  On another pedestal, a family of immigrants in Boston, still poor, the mother and son barefoot, but decently dressed and fed.  Although it has been criticized for representing “pious clichés and dead … Continue reading Hope and Glory