Each November the Center for New Americans challenges the poets of the Pioneer Valley to help raise funds to support their services of providing education and other resources to facilitate their transition to their new lives. Please join me in supporting this worthy cause.
In the early 1900s, my mother, her parents and siblings left their home in The Netherlands and emigrated to the United States. Some time before that, my father's father emigrated from Italy. When his wife died in childbirth, he sent for her 14-year-old sister to care for his three babies. She gave birth to five more, one of whom was my father.
My ancestors had one thing in common with today's immigrants: They wanted something better for their families. The Center for New Americans strives to make that dream a reality every day, right here in our Pioneer Valley. Please join me in supporting them.
