Imagine for a moment… It is the ides of February 1926. You are Chiu Yook Lon, an eighteen-year-old woman and a passenger on the Pacific Mail Steamship President Pierce, bound for San Francisco from Hong Kong. The seas are rough, and you are seasick the entire twenty-eight day voyage — a voyage destined to end in a ferryboat ride to a minimum-security prison ... Read More »
Ramses Bulatao shares his story about why did he come to US, his lifestyle and his viewpoints on education, youth and diversity here in US Shared by: Ruth Arriola Read More »
Percy Tredegar Morgan was born in London in 1862 into a distinguished family of Welsh origins. At age 21, after learning bookkeeping, auditing, and other skills, he left England for the United States to work for mining companies in Nevada, Denver and Montana. His experiences and legacy of just the first 15 years of his life in America are amazing. ... Read More »
At the height of dot.com boom with Margaux 8 months old landed in SF with 103 F fever, hand and mouth and foot disease nowhere to stay, no family PhD in pocket came to do a post-doc in HIV research ended up with post-partum depression and a divorce From Belgium been here 15 years thought I would only stay ... Read More »
Click & listen to the story as read by Gelsimino’s granddaughter, Marilynn Holland, a resident of Palo Alto. My grandfather was born in Verbicaro, a small Southern Italian inland town in Calabria, Italy. His passport says that he was born in 1892. His family was quite poor working in the fields. His mother collected spare coins in ... Read More »