Counter Culture

Clams, Convents and a Circle of Global Citizens

Eleanor Dunfey-Freiburger

• Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781942155157
• eBook ISBN:
  9781942155324
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Follows Roy and Kate Dunfey's journey from humble beginners to entrepreneurial success highlighting their family's influence and diverse contributions. When LeRoy "Roy" Dunfey called out "Hey...Dunfey" in his fried clam restaurant in the 1940s, at least seven of his twelve children would turn around. Then he'd point to the one he needed without having to remember names. Roy and Catherine 'Kate' Manning had met and married thirty years earlier as teenage workers in Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills. With little formal education or resources, but with a store of humor, entrepreneurial zest, and spiritual roots, they collared the American dream starting out in 1915 with Dunfey's Orchestra, a luncheonette, and a baby every two years through the Great Depression to the doorstep of World War II. Written by their twelfth child, this saga reveals the lasting influence her parents had on each of their dozen kids: around the kitchen table digesting political fare; over restaurant counters meeting a diverse world of people; into and out of convents serving as educators; on to Boston's Parker House, Omni International Hotel boardrooms, and, for forty-five years, still around the table of the family's not-for-profit Global Citizens Circle's civil dialogues.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Prologue: From Ireland to “God’s Holy Acre”—The Paddy Camps
• Chapter 1: 1901 Death at Sea
• Chapter 2: 1913–1915 Before and After “Labor” Day
• Chapter 3: 1920 Counter Culture: First Girl, First Store
• Chapter 4: Surviving Birth and the Tumult of Living
• Chapter 5: Upstairs, Downstairs
• Chapter 6: Rituals, Rituals, and Rules
• Chapter 7: 1938–1941 The First Phase of Dunfey Convent Years
• Chapter 8: 1940s: World War II A Changing Acre—A New Half-dozen Dunfeys
• Chapter 9: 1941: A War Over There Comes Home
• Chapter 10: 1945 Flying Home
• Chapter 11: 1946 Hampton Beach: Turkey Sandwiches to Clams
• Chapter 12: Destination Durham, and Division of Labor
• Chapter 13: 1951 C Street Hampton Beach: Dunfeys—for Good Eating
• Chapter 14: June 14, 1952 The Twelve Together with Our Parents
• Chapter 15: 1953 Homestead: From Lowell to Hampton
• Chapter 16: 1954 A Tavern in the Town—Lamie’s
• Chapter 17: Classrooms into Boardrooms: Integrating Life Learning
• Chapter 18: “Where have all the women gone?”
• Chapter 19: 1969 East Coast Meets the Midwest on the West Coast
• Chapter 20: A Whole New World—Not Only for the Sisters
• Chapter 21: The Sixties: Go West and North, Young Men
• Chapter 22: New Hampshire Democratic Party—Roots and Wings
• Chapter 23: 1962 The Wayfarer: New Vistas Economically, Financially, Politically
• Chapter 24: Wooing Executives
• Chapter 25: The Isle of Ireland
• Chapter 26: November 1968 All the Way to Boston… All the Way to the Parker House
• Chapter 27: Restoring a Classic
• Chapter 28: 1971 Mother of the Bride at age 76
• Chapter 29: 1974 A Circle of Global Citizens (GCC)
• Chapter 30: What We Owe: Our Time to the Young
• Chapter 31: 1984–2013 “Where the world comes to mind…”
• Chapter 32: The Jack Effect
• Chapter 33: Full Credit: Your lives are my life.
• Chapter 34: “Countah Cultshah”
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix I Chronology: From clams to corporations
• Appendix II Global Citizens Circle History: From epilogue to prologue
• About the Author