By TomL
I am going back many years where some people I knew help me understand the process of Immigration. The story starts where a family came to the Promise land, the United States of America!
You could get a job, work hard and live a life out of poverty. I won’t put a name on them because some are still alive. An Immigrant got a job on the Rail Road and later married his sweetheart and had five children. The father died in a Rail Road Car accident, where he was knocked off the top of a rail road car, laid in bed over night and passed away.
One of the daughters told the story. She was the second oldest and was not yet a teen. The mother was working any job she could to make money. Taking in washing, altering clothes, ironing clothes, scrubbing floors to feed the children. The daughter telling the story said that “They were never were so poor as they were in America”. On the way home from school the children would walk the railroad track to pickup up coal that fell off the Railroad cars. Some of the local people did not like that, why because they were immigrants and poor, so they stopped them every day until they stopped walking the tracks home. Continue reading
Kay is a fifth generation Floridian that enjoys being retired and keeping busy. She’s a prolific wildlife, event, and portrait photographer. She does not photograph weddings. She has always loved photography and began as a volunteer photographer while working at the phone company. She would often take photos at family and friend events that she attended. After retirement, she dabbled in taking wildlife and nature photos while traipsing through Florida rivers, lakes and forests. Her nature photographs appeared and were sold in a local diner. Kay often volunteers her photography time to the City of Ocala, Marion Senior Services, NSDAR Daughters of the American Revolution (Ocala Chapter), the Marion County Honor Guard, as well as other organizations. Continue reading
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