Welcome to the Cork Clarion!

Welcome to the Cork Clarion! This blog has been setup up as a family communication tool for the sons, daughters and grandchildren (and great-grandchildren, etc) of Edward and Ruby Acree. I chose the name Cork Clarion to honor my father Edward Acree who spent many of his 63 years living in Cork, Kentucky, and also because I spent a few years of my own there. In fact, in the late 1970s, Dad was the de facto mayor of Cork (only because the mailman delivered all the mail addressed to "Mayor, Cork, Kentucky" to him).

My hopes for this blog are that all my brothers and sisters will read and submit, and that this will be a place to reminisce about Mom, Dad, Pop (Sherman), Grandma (Flora), Granny (Marie Nault), brother Bob, what it was like living on the farm in '59 and throughout the 70s and what it was like to live in Baltimore in the 50s, 60s and on. I also want this to be a place where we can share our values, our faith, and our love for our families and for each other, as well as news and so on. I do not want to compete with the Acree Family website created by Tom, but I just wanted something easier to post thoughts on. It is my hope that the two will be complimentary.

Please be patient with me as this whole blogging thing is new to me. I hope to improve the site as I go along and add more features. For now, I have just started and look forward to posting more!!

Chuck