A couple of times a year historian John Patrick Kerrigan travels from Liverpool, England to visit his daughter and her family in San Diego.

The Grauer School was fortunate to have Mr. Kerrigan speak to Lisa Ezzard’s 7th grade class about what it was like growing up as a young boy in Britain during World War II. Kerrigan distinctly remembers everyone carrying around gas masks, his father digging a bomb shelter in their garden, and moving out of the targeted city to the country, with his mother and sister, while his dad was away at sea.

He has many fond memories of simpler times and is a history fan extraordinaire. He’s written two books, Liverpool The Gateway To American and the forthcoming A Bowl of Scouse: The Forgotten People and Hidden Events Beneath the Surface of Liverpool’s History.

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