After a long and grueling boat ride across the Atlantic Ocean from the off shore island of the Azores in the Southwest Europe nation of Portugal, my parents and I arrived in New Bedford, Massachusetts in New England. It was the year 1925. Some of our family had arrived before us; some even arrived several years before we did. On the way there I remember listening to my father tell me stories about New England. My favorite story was about the explorers and how they came to find New England. He told me that there was a nautical map that dates back to 1424 which depicted New England and that a Portuguese Sailor, Dualmo, arrived in New England in 1487, five years prior to Christopher Columbus whom supposedly was the first man to discover New England.

My parents and I were the last in my immediate family to travel to New England. My grandfather was a stubborn man and did not want to leave the old country so he planted his feet and refused to follow many of his family and friends. I......

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Title: Portuguese Paper
Approximate Word Count: 915
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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