Mike Sherin

We had no close neighbors except the Fox family but they were all older except Augusta (Gucky) who was younger and became Rose's friend. Living and working for us, there was always Mike Sherin. Mike was never married and had few relatives that I know of. He had come from Ireland as a young man and after working at various jobs around the country for a couple of years, he came to work for my father as a farm hand and continued for the rest of his life. I do remember a sister visiting him when I was quite young and later a niece and her family who lived in East Falls. Mike was a hard and conscientious worker except when he went periodically on a drinking binge for a week or so. He would become very drunk and that seemed to be his only pleasure or amusement, if you could call it that, because he was usually sick for a week after he sobered up.