Kelly’s dad grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She remembers her father, George, telling stories of growing up in “Irish Harlem”, a pretty rough neighborhood squeezed between Spanish Harlem, Black Harlem and Columbia University. George was a straight-up “city kid”, but each summer from about the age of 6 or 7, until he was a tween, George escaped to New Hampshire, and a Catholic boy’s camp called Camp Notre Dame on Spofford Lake.   | More…

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