He arrived in the Upper East Side shortly before 7 p.m. and was cheered by onlookers as he exited his vehicle. His granddaughter Finnegan, whose birthday was yesterday, greeted him with a hug. The two then stepped inside an Italian restaurant, Campagnola, which describes...
Ancestry continues: “A post-Revolutionary War depression hit farmers hard … and inspired many to move to Kentucky to find better land. These migrants typically moved in community and family groups … [T]hey also wrote about their appreciation for their snug cabin homes and the beauty of Kentu...
There are also many happy memories. Yesterday, I heard about a 13-year-old girl who had a successful bone-marrow transplant. The treatment had been going on for almost 11 months. I felt very happy when I heard that she has recovered now. There was a boy ...
The steamship that brought Annie Moore arrived late Thursday night. Early yesterday morning the passengers of that vessel were placed on board the immigrant transfer boat John E. Moore. The craft was gayly decorated with bunting and ranged alongside the wharf on Ellis Island amid a clang of bel...
Northern Cardinals aren’t used to receiving any attention from my lens as I’ve been focusing on migrants, so this one didn’t try to move, he just knew the shadows and branches would make him less photogenic. I was on my way back along the paved trail when I suddenly had Golden-cro...
"We just stay here and wait," says a Kurdish refugee from Iraq who arrived in the camp a week ago. Many have been trying to preserve their home country’s ethnic flavor among the Greek pines and olive groves. One would turn to the maximum a loudspeaker playing Syrian music. Another can...
This kind of work brought us in contact with so many people of different walks of life. For instance, migrants who still had to come to grips with the cultural shock they had suffered after coming to Australia. Australian men did not like us “New-Australians” but the women did. Meeting...
Just yesterday, the Post’s front page featured a photograph of Central American migrants who — fleeing violence — are seeking asylum at our southern border. I think of Horace once again because of the rest of what he had to say. After having described his generation as being “more ...
So it’s basically social democracy, but for the Danish people, not for migrants. Whereas in the United States — and in many other countries — we tend to think of anti-immigrant also as being right-wing. But Scandinavia has, “Yeah, we love our social democracy, but it’s just for...
In the post-Soviet era many Russian Israelis came as economic migrants, many of which are Orthodox Christians or married to Orthodox Christians, not to mention his note of the growth of Orthodox Christian pilgrimage tourism especially from Russia; and the Old Soviet war vets and heroes in Israel...