Runaway Haley: An Imagined Family Saga

SEEKING A BETTER LIFE Michael Haley fled Ireland but in America he found only hard work hardship Civil War and epidemics. His childrens futures didnt start out brighter than what hed left behind as they suffered with him then and later at the hands of others during the Reconstruction.In 1958 Ruby Haley received a letter from a distant uncle that told the story of her father Robert his sister Fannie and their remarkable journey across the years. Based on these real-life ancestors; and using letters documents and newspaper clippings; RUNAWAY HALEY imagines what might have happened in the lives of two generations of the Haley family living in the Deep South during centuries past.