confessions of a reformed tourist
Do you remember when I was 16 and going to Hawaii? You told me about the Honolulu Santiagos, your cousins who left Puerto Rico as teens, like you did. Except they went to Hawaii instead of New York. (They’d heard, you said, about the pineapple.) You wanted me to look them up. But Grandpa, I [...]
I’ve had my toes in the waters of family history for a while now. I’ve written down stories as I remember them, asked my aunts, uncles, cousins, parents and sibling to share their memories, collected photographs and recipes, and even photographed some jewelry and a century-old pocket watch that my great-grandmother’s father gave her the [...]
