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We would love to hear your Miami Story, the tale of how your family found its way to South Florida.

Email your stories and photos to MiamiStories@HistoryMiami.org. We'll post your stories on this page and print a sampling in Sunday's Neighbors. You'll find more Miami Stories on the Newsmakers program on Comcast Channel 29 and on WLRN/Herald Radio.

Look for the South Florida history 'Question of the Week,' Thursdays on this page.

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Miami Stories is part of Make Miami History Now, a project of HistoryMiami and The Miami Herald, author/historian Arva Moore Parks, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and National Conference on Citizenship Chaiman Michael Weiser.


Miami Stories

Uncle Mickey’s marvelous times in Miami Beach

It is hard to believe that I have called Miami home for over 35 years. Actually I am just another transplanted Ohioan who landed in South Florida. Yet each time I cross over any of the causeways to Miami Beach, I tend to believe that this was all part of a master plan.

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Carmen Talarico in Homestead onion field in 1967.

    Miami Stories

    The farming life drew them to Homestead from New York

    My great-grandfather, Joseph Rapisardo, Sr., was a farmer in Chester, New York, with my grandfather, Leo Nicotra. As the cold and nasty winters arrived every year making crop growing a challenge, they decided to move to sunny Florida in 1950.

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Tomás and Adriana Jakovljevic in front of The Netherland Hotel, Miami Beach, April 1987.

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    A love of Miami that has aged slowly

    As it happens with all the affections destined to last, my love for Miami was initially tentative, and needed time to mature. Since my childhood, living in Argentina, I associated South Florida with intrepid pirates raiding the Caribbean waters. Its name awakened the traveler in me, that wanderer that we children of immigrants carry in our hearts.

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Alina Diaz and her family at Lincoln Road mall, 1962.

    Miami Stories

    A childhood filled with friends from Cuba made moving to Miami easy

    Just like so many other Cuban-Americans, we came to Miami to escape the ravages of the Communist regime that had taken over our island-nation. We were lucky enough to come on a regularly scheduled Pan Am flight.

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Miami Stories: Cecilia Dubon Slesnick

Cecilia Dubon Slesnick shares her story of emigrating from Nicaragua with her family at 17 months. Her godfather, then President of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, fled to Miami in July 1979, where he received temporary asylum. The Jimmy Carter administration did not grant permanent asylum and he moved to Paraguay. He was assassinated in Paraguay on Sept. 17, 1980. Slesnick shares her love of her family and of Miami. Video by: Emily Michot / Miami Herald Staff
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