Having spent the better part of the morning outwaiting a torrential downpour - (yes, Nellie is very water proof) we headed off on another adventure and ended up in Lucan, Ontario - home of the Black Donnellys. It's a subject the whole town has made a tourist industry around and have done it pretty well.
I had always heard that one of the members of the vigilante group who murdered the Donnelly's was a Harrigan and so I wanted to do a little sleuthing around to see what I could find out. We went to the Lucan Museum and Archives and met a man who "Knew" the whole history of the Harrigans and their involvement.
He said that it was not something anyone wanted to talk about until fairly recently because everyone in the area was an aunt, a cousin or some sort of kin. He did say thought that it was rather ironic that a descendent of one of the vigilantes "the Harrigan" now owned most of the property in and around the Donnelly farm. He also said that these Harrigans were definitely connected to those ones over in Kinkora. I love a mystery, so it should be fun to unravel this one.
It was another lovely day and our bbq last night was the BEST! Heading to the beach tomorrow.
Tonight we are going to try making Blueberry Grunt which I think is a Nova Scotia pan bread, but I'm not sure so I'll have to let you know.
to be continued...
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