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STOLEN FIELDS: A Story of Eminent Domain and the D
By Jean Boggio
My grandfather and great-grandmother were the last hold-outs on Neville Island when the government took their rich farm.
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The story tells of the strong-willed and colorful Cole family, whose historic loss of their prosperous farm on Neville Island in Pittsburgh at the time of WWI through eminent domain, has shadowed the lives of my mother's generation, as well as my own. The island was the "Market Basket of Pittsburgh," and the farms there grew the best asparagus on the East Coast. The loss of the Cole farm grew other things as well: hatred, bitterness, greed, ambition, and aberrant lust. The story traces the history of the Cole family from the time of their arrival in Pittsburgh from Maine in 1814. My life is intertwined with the family story, and I've tried to tell it with candor and humor. Dark twists of the human soul are followed, when the bitterness of the loss ate at the hearts of some of the family members. Many family members develop strength and courage which flows down to my generation, while others cannot pull themselves out of the quagmire of despair. They ignobly turn to wreak frustration and vengeance on weaker victims.
