High Hopes and Dreams begins where On the High Seas ends. It's the first week of November, 1851, and the ship carrying the O'Donnell family, and about 120 Irish immigrants, have braved the two-month voyage from Derry, Ireland. The ship has entered its final leg - traversing the Chesapeake Bay and landing at a wharf in Baltimore. Uncharacteristically cold weather has stifled most commerce and life in general, limiting nearly all outdoor movement and...