Today we went to the Ulster-American Folk Park that traces the migration of the Irish from Ulster

to America. The park shows typical homes in Ulster and homes in America where they settled.

Poor Irish family home

Thomas Mellon's home. He left here with his parents when he was five

and eventually settled in the Pittsburgh area and made his fortune. His family is a

sponsor of this park.

Grandma Hazel's blue willow dishes!!

Mock village

This is a house from western PA that was moved to this

site. The Irish lady dressed in period clothes asked me where I was

from. When I told her PA she showed me a book about this house and wanted to know

how to pronounce a word because none of them knew how to say it.

"Monongahela"   Apparently this house was near the Monongahela River but no one knew how to say the word.

An Irish rainbow on the way home.