Honoring the Dead, 150 Years Later

Last Saturday, mourners gathered on Staten Island to bury the remains of immigrants who had died over a century and a half ago. Their bones were discovered in 2000 during the construction of a courthouse; they had been left in unmarked mass graves in the mid 19th century.

Read my article on IrishCentral.com here (written with Eleanor Miller, fellow journalist and J-school student) and watch a video on the event below.