By Michael Patrick O’Brien– When I was a young boy in the 1970s, my family was trying to recover from a painful divorce. My mother took us to visit the…
Posts published in June 2021
By Gary Topping– Like the Blue Mouse theater that Mike O’Brien, our blogger-in-chief, wrote about recently, the much older Utah Theater in downtown Salt Lake City is also now closed. …
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Although I saw Utah’s Trappist monks at their old Huntsville monastery all the time, I never expected them to make an appearance at the state’s best…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My mother often told us about her childhood visits in the early 1940s with her favorite uncle, a gregarious New England Catholic priest born in Limerick,…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My departed older brother, Kevin Peter (“Pete”) O’Brien Jr., lived a complicated life and died a complicated death. And yet, it is a 175-year old Shaker…