By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
March 17, 2016
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Contrary to what you might expect from glancing at my byline, my family is not Irish. My ancestors hailed from points east of Hibernia; the surname used to be Slavic (or maybe Russian, or Georgian? From that general region, anyway) until it was changed in order to make my clan seem more Americanized.