Tag: Immigrants’ Song

Harold Evans was an English journalist, writer and editor who loved America before he had ever seen it. He eventually ...

Arriving from Ireland in 1840, the Curtins have thrived for generations in New York...

"I remember riding in the back seat of the family Studebaker past the old train station..."

The cascading events surrounding the notorious “relocation” of scores of South American migrants from Florida and Texas to the Northeast ...

Make no mistake about it. Immigration Day — more commonly known as Labor Day — is a time originally intended ...

I’m not sure I wish I knew all the details of my paternal great-grandfather’s life in America. John P. Horrigan ...

We were at the southernmost point of our summer-long travel through Europe — the Costa del Sol, southern Spain. After ...

It’s become a platitude that we’re all immigrants. That’s about as inclusive a demographic as can be imagined. But here’s ...

Elizabeth Ocskay remembers how her grandfather, the man she called Dedi, would walk her to elementary school every morning along ...

My grandparents worked hard to be good American citizens. My grandfather started rolling cigars in New York City. He was ...

Nora Strano’s story begins in Sicily. Or rather, one of her stories begins in Sicily.

In many ways, my immigrant grandmother was the blueprint for my personality, character and physical appearance. We were soulmates before ...

Guissepina Amico, my Mama Pina , left Palermo, Sicily with her husband Angelo and daughter Theresa to begin the journey ...

Oscar Paulson was my grandfather. He came to the USA through Ellis Island. He was 19.