Maggie of Crosswell

On June 30, 1965, at eleven in the morning, Margaret Saville Monahan, age ten, arrived at eleven in the morning accompanied by Rose Cherney, one of the county’s social workers. Rose Cherney rang the doorbell of Crosswell, Maggie’s hand held firmly in hers. Miss Cooper answered the door. “I’ve brought one of the Monahan children,” she said. This is the way Maggie’s life as an orphan began. On June 30, 1965, at eleven in the morning, Margaret Saville Monahan, age ten, arrived at this ordered, predictable world of Crosswell, accompanied by Rose Cherney, one of the county’s social workers.