An Irish American family go back to 1883 to discover what's most important in the present. What could be more parental than to wish to show your children how good they have it today? To take your family into the past and give them a taste of real life, when necessity stared you straight in
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What could be more parental than to wish to show your children how good they have it today? To take your family into the past and give them a taste of real life, when necessity stared you straight in the face and your mettle was tested by the sometimes–cruel vicissitudes of nature?
For Gordon Clune, the son of an Irish father, and Adrienne Clune, an immigrant from County Wicklow, fantasy became a reality when their family was picked out of 5000 applicants to “go back” 118 years and spend five months as homesteaders in Montana.
The premise of the six–hour PBS “reality program” was simple: send three families from modern times back to 1883, set up rigorous rules to make the experience as authentic as possible, turn the cameras on and see what happens. The resulting program,