This letter is also significant because it calls attention to characteristic sentiments and customs about Kinkora . A certain clan spirit or sentiment characterized the community, apparently form its start. The fact that practically everyone was Irish and Catholic is the basis of it; and, doubtless, the efforts of Fathers Doyle and McDonald to mold thinking and behavior greatly contributed to the clannishness. However, it was not the exclusionist and isolationist kind; rather, it involved more and more people: certaintly those related to the founding families, but also those who once had lived there and then moved away. The latter were encouraged to return to the village and renew the clan bonds; summer vacations is the time most of this re- -rde CUS+©rn_ beto-m.es obi//'oos <Jb6u4- visiting is done, now as then.^The returnees also contribute to the maintenance of the sentiments and customs. A final demonstration of this sentiment is burial with the ancestors in the cemetery at Kinkora . The following examples are illustrative. In 1893 Patrick C. Murphy, a former resident of Kinkora , graduated from the University of New York Medical College with the highest grades ever earned at that institution. (33) The local newspapers proudly told the story of the young Islander^outsmarting the Americans, the accolades bestowed on him by professors and colleagues,Athe graduation at New York 's Carneigie Music Hall, with 6000 people standing , cheering and throwing flowers on Dr. Murphy . But by mistake the paper enred in giving the Doctor's birthplace as Alberton . Two days later a highly indignant correspondent from Kinkora , "Justice," corrected the error. (34) Dr. Murphy was the son of Thomas Murphy and Rose McCabe . He was 1100 H