Miami, FL
My thanks to those who have written of their beginnings in South Florida. Their memories have kindled long dormant, almost forgotten, ones in me. And that is a good thing.
Although I was born in the 1940s at Jackson Memorial Hospital, my paternal grandmother, Clara Belle Thomas, and her husband came...
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South Miami, FL
My family came to Miami from Holland after World War II. My father had first visited the United States during his youth while working for the Holland...
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Miami, FL
I grew up in Miami. In 1964 my family relocated to Miami from Rhode Island, at the time I was six years old. The three of us, my mother, my sister, and...
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Miami, FL
Stories of families separated and reunited, of language difficulties, of nostalgia for the old country, of countless vicissitudes, but also of triumph...
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Miami, FL
My mother hanging on to the top of a telephone pole is one of my earliest memories of South Florida. It lingers in my mind some sixty years later. Soon...
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Miami, FL
Although I was born in Miami, I left when I was a couple months old and did not return until I was almost seven. My father got hired as a pilot for Pan...
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Miami, FL
I was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. My parents were also born in Brooklyn, and their parents emigrated from Russia to the United States between...
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Miami, FL
Just like so many other Cuban-Americans, we came to Miami to escape the ravages of the Communist regime that had taken over our island-nation. We were...
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Homestead, FL
My great-grandfather, Joseph Rapisardo, Sr., was a farmer in Chester, New York, with my grandfather, Leo Nicotra. As the cold and nasty winters arrived...
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Miami Beach, FL
As it happens with all the affections destined to last, my love for Miami was initially tentative, and needed time to mature. Since my childhood, living...
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