One of the best locations in the film American Fiction is Scituate and particularly Sand Hills and Peggoty Beach. Scituate is called "The most Irish town in America". It was only when I got home after seeing the film that my searches revealed it's history.
But the most amazing co-incidence came only an hour later when, reading my current novel Christine Falls, our hero Quirke travels with Phoebe from Ireland to Boston to stay with relatives at, yes Scituate. And they are all Irish.
When we were on holiday some years ago, we travelled from Boston to Hyannis. If we had taken the back road instead of the main road we would have passed through Scituate. Small world.
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