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    Book Reviews - Family

    Book Review: The Things We Didn’t Know

    June 8, 2024 - By 

    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…

  • Childbirth - Finland

    The Midwife’s Story

    October 6, 2017 - By 

    A number of years ago I read an article about a Finnish midwife. In 1909 she had been at the center of a court case, determining the legality of midwifery in Massachusetts. She had been arrested a number of times (despite the fact that her statistics for live births were…