Recently I read An Untamed Land, a novel by Lauraine Snelling. The story follows two families that immigrated to the United States from Norway with the goal of acquiring a homestead. The work of clearing land, establishing a home and managing to find the food and resources to survive was terribly…
Elba Iris Pérez has written an engaging novel about an immigrant family, The Things We Didn’t Know. The story takes us to Woronoco, Massachusetts and to Puerto Rico. The main character is a young girl who must find her identity as Puerto Rican and American. Andrea, came to Massachusetts with…
At the beginning of the twentieth century my grandmother immigrated to a mining town in Upper Michigan, from Finland. She married a copper miner in the Copper Country. Long after my grandmother passed away I learned about the miner’s strike and a disaster that killed 73 people, most of them…