Introduction

My name is Dolores Gilligan and I am married, mother of five grown children and grandmother of eight. Through the years we had three foster children and one of them is married and has three children. We live in New York State in a farmhouse built in 1870. The original farm was one hundred and fifty acres, but less than three of those acres were included in our purchase. At the present time, we only have two cats. Before this we lived on a one hundred and twenty-seven acre farm. There we had cows, sheep, rabbits, chickens, dogs and cats. An idyllic life.