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FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) - The Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute is celebrating its six-year day astatine Fresno State.
There are 350,000 Portuguese Americans successful California, which is much than immoderate different state.
“For much than a period Portuguese migrants, galore of those from the Azores,” said Consul-General of Portugal successful San Francisco Filipe Ramalheira. “Working the land, gathering businesses.”
Those migrants pursuing the American imagination successful California and the Central Valley.
“The Portuguese person agelong been present. Well beyond their borders,” said FLAD President Nuno Marais Sarmento.
This week astatine the Fresno State Library, PBBI celebrated its six-year anniversary.
Portuguese Author Katherine Vaz made the travel location arsenic the Keynote Speaker.
Her romance novel, “Above the Salt” is astir a Portuguese exile from the Azores.
It made People Magazine’s publication of the week.
“I americium pursuing the emotion communicative based connected a existent antheral who fought successful the Civil War courted a pistillate from the Lincoln household and wandered the westbound for 50 years earlier helium came crossed her again,” said Vaz.
She hopes to animate much Portuguese Americans, particularly the younger procreation to perceive and stock stories.
“If determination is 1 happening I would emotion for Portuguese families, is to stock their families with each different and the younger procreation due to the fact that we bash hide them. If you don’t constitute them down, you don’t grounds them they volition beryllium lost.”
You tin find her publication here.
