Delighted to see that the Tampa-based digital magazine 83 Degrees just published an excerpt from my oral history book about Cuban exiles who came to this country in the first fifteen years after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. This excerpt features two exiles from Tampa with very different stories—Mike Collazo, a laborer who came over in the Second Wave on a Freedom Flight in 1967, and Ralph Fernandez, a lawyer who came over in the First Wave on a commercial airliner in 1960. I’m looking forward to my book events in June at the Tampa Bay History Center in Tampa and Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg. Thank you, Diane Egner! #oralhistory #patriayvida
https://www.83degreesmedia.com/features/new-book-offers-stories-of-Cuban-Exiles-in-Tampa-and-Florida-040521.aspx