Here’s to Immigrants

~ MaryG

All of these immigrants arrived in the United States dirt poor from Southern Italy in search of a better life.

My paternal grandparents, circa 1925.
My husband’s maternal grandparents, mid 1920s
My husband’s paternal grandmother (top right) and her children, including my father-in-law (bottom left) in Boston, mid 1920s

100 years later, their great, great granddaughter, a United States citizen, has just learned to roll over.

It’s wild to think that if any one of these immigrants had been sent back to Italy, my granddaughter wouldn’t be here.

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