Background
Cahillane, James Francis was born on January 3, 1933 in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James and Imogene (Smith) Cahillane.
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The Winter Offering section of this book subtitled: Salutations, Verse, Lessons and Prayers takes the reader through the authors life adventures regarding family, friends, education and travel. A Second Collection adds twenty-two contemporary poems that reflect on the poet's more recent encounters with political changes in America. All in all the book holds up a bright mirror to one observer's travels and travails in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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(The Best Place of All has the ingredients of a traditiona...)
The Best Place of All has the ingredients of a traditional Irish-American saga--eloquence, humor, pathos--but this is also the fast moving story of immigration in the 20th century and how one dynamic go-getter embodies multigenerational progress. "Smiling Jim" Cahillane plunges into the life of mid-century Northampton, founding a family and businesses, plus trouncing his political rivals. His son's rollicking tale follows the new arrival, a nobody from rural County Kerry for three decades until he becomes President Kennedy's "Mayor Jim" and a traveler between the old and new worlds.
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Cahillane, James Francis was born on January 3, 1933 in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James and Imogene (Smith) Cahillane.
Bachelor, University Massachusetts, 1989. Master of Arts, University Massachusetts, 1997.
President Cahillane Motors, Inc., Northampton, Massachusetts, 1963—1993, 2000—2003. Columnist Daily Hampshire Gazette, 1993—2001.
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Chair Northampton Redevelopment Authority, 1970-1975. Staff sergeant United States Air Force, 1951-1954. Member National Writers Union.
Married Maureen Patricia Stone, September 10, 1955. Children: Richard J., Daniel E., Christopher P., Matthew J., Maria T.