And here's the photo from another post about the SRO event at Books and Books in Coral Gables for my new oral history book about Cuban exiles, "Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away." It was a conversation with Jorge Duany, one of my narrators and director of the Cuban...
Another SRO crowd tonight for an event to promote my oral history book about Cuban exiles, this time at the flagship store in Coral Gables for South Florida’s Books and Books. About a dozen of my narrators attended, so it was almost like a family reunion. Thanks to...
Excellent exhibit at Miami’s American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora about Operation Pedro Pan, the program sponsored by the Catholic Church and US government that brought 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to safety in the US from 1960 to 1962. I learned a lot about...
I’m excited about going to Miami for my next book event, at Books and Books in Coral Gables. Over the years it’s been one of my favorite bookstores, and I was thrilled when I was invited to present my book there. I’ll be in conversation with one of my narrators and a...
SRO crowd tonight at the Midtown Reader bookstore for the official launch of my oral history book about Cuban exiles. Thank you, Sally Bradshaw, for your help, encouragement, and opening your store for this event. And thanks to everyone who was there. #oralhistory...
With the official launch of my oral history book about Cuban exiles, Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles, I’m venturing into new territory as I try to find an audience for the book. Like podcasts. I taped an interview for Episode 54 of The...
My old friend and wire-service competitor Bill Cotterell offers his thoughts today on my new oral history book about Cuban exiles. And he’s right: the Cuban exiles’ story resonates today as we watch hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flee their homeland to escape an...
It was great starting the day--launch day for my oral history book about Cuban exiles--by seeing this piece in the Tallahassee Democrat. It sets the stage for my first book event at Tallahassee's Midtown Reader bookstore at 7 pm Thursday. #patriayvida #oralhistory
I’m so pleased that the first event for my new oral history book about Cuban exiles will be held at the Midtown Reader in Tallahassee on Thursday, March 3, at 7 pm. I’m thrilled that my friend Mary Ellen Klas, the Tallahassee bureau chief for the Miami Herald, will be...
Big day at our house! My oral history book about Cuban exiles finally arrived. I started work on it in 2015, began interviews in 2016, and finished them in 2020.