mi abuelita

My grandmother, Guadalupe, was a first generation American born in Vermont in 1918 to Spanish Immigrants.

Over 100 years after my great grandparents came to America through Ellis Island to the quarries, cows and creameries that made Barre somehow Basque, I’m bound for our origin with the intention of pursuing citizenship through my ancestors and our Sephardic heritage.

I’m not the first in my family to return to Spain from the new world, though. The triangle…