Caption:Cape Verde IslandsAre Now a Nation

Fazenda (View from Plateau)

MY FAMILY IN CABO VERDE

Maria Santa Pires

From a toddler

Thru the teen years

TRI-CITY PEOPLE’S CENTER

GrandparentsCarlota Baptiste Britto Leitao

Joao Jose Vasconcellos Falcao

NO EXPECTATIONS

NO FUTURE

NO PLANS

RELATIONSHIPS

Educators Politicians

CEO’S

Friends

MusiciansActivists

Family

Leaders

NO EXPECTATIONSNO FUTURENO PLANS

Rutgers University - Newark

Inter-Americana University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

Me, my sister Cookie & friends in Oakdale (Wareham), Massachusetts

Circa 1941

Sunny Isles Beach, Florida “Florida’s Riviera.”

“William Shakespeare play: “As You Like It”

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts.

The OldOur Lady of Assumption Church

New Bedford, Mass.

Onset - 1953

My activist days in Newark, New Jersey during the 70’s and 80’s

The Militant Look

Tri-City Peoples Center Newark, NJ

Brockton Enterprise -1/10/99

DOT - 1962

BECKY - 1976

Maryanne - 1985

My Ex Wives

MY BRIDE

The Great Wall of China August 1977

Republic of Cabo Verde - July 5,1980 5th Anniversary of Independence

Praia

President Aristides Pereira & Prime Minister Pedro Pires