BOOKS: Through the eyes of three pioneers, the hard road to the American dream reimagined.

"All morning, I sat on deck with everyone else, staring at the buildings on the shore and imagining a new life just out of reach.” — Cornelius Collins

The Irish Echo - The Oldest Irish American Newspaper in USA, established in 1928, has published a significant excerpt of Charles Paul Collins' debut novel The Remembering: Of Leather & Stone.

"Through the eyes of three pioneers, the hard road to the American dream reimagined," writes The Irish Echo. The excerpt introduces its modern-day readership to the events of Monday, November 22, 1852, when the American passenger ship Clara Wheeler, approaches the city of Boston after forty-one days at sea from Liverpool, England."