One Man’s Opinion
Among the many lessons I learned from my maternal grandmother, Mary L. Crane, was that it can be tough to hate up close. Mary was an Irish-Catholic carpetbagger, who moved her family south from upstate New York in 1949. Her father, a first-generation Irish American, had been a successful but modest neighborhood grocer.
She lost her mother as a child, and her father, Tom Kenney, bus…
