![]() ![]() Mary’s Springs, where her teacher, Sister Rosita Handibode, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. "Maureen Daly shared Fond du Lac with the outside world through her book ‘Seventeenth Summer.'”ĭaly and her family left Ireland and came to the United States in the 1920s and settled in a home on Bank Street. ![]() “We also need to celebrate the people that contributed to who we are as a community," Benson said. The selection allows for the event to not focus on “physical buildings” that serve as “architectural treasures” in the community’s history, but on the city’s people as well, said Community Development Director Dyann Benson, who also acts as the staff liaison to the commission. When it came to selecting a subject for this year’s event, Daly was a perfect fit, because of the number of people who grew up reading her work in the city and the ability to discuss Fond du Lac’s history through it, said VanderWeele. ![]()
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