Remembering an American Dreamer

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Such pictures represent my only memories of my grandfather.

A man who followed the “American Dream” from mayor of a small town in what is now Slovenia to Bethlehem Steel and the opportunities it offered to him and his family.

Konkolics

Stephen F. Konkolics
1885-1968
circa 1930s

If it weren’t for the Steel and my grandfather’s desire for a better life where would I be?
Would I even be?
Looking at this picture I am grateful for the courage my grandfather had and the opportunities the Steel gave to those who had the courage to grab their future.

Melodie (Konkolics) Gallagher

Published by The Bethlehem Gadfly

Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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