FYI… Just added your RSS to the homepage. Below fold, but I’m glad to read I’m not the only one. I hope the members of AN submit content for you anthology. Should we collaborate?
I enjoy your work. Thanks. I was born in the island of Flores, came to California when I was 16 and I have spend the my life living with one foot on each side of the Atlantic. When I go to Flores I love it but I no longer belong there since everything and everyone has changed. There I am an American. I come back and I miss being there and here in California I am an Azorian…I guess that it is true you can leave the island but the island does not leave you. Thanks and please keep writing.
Congratulations, Fernanda on this project., which I was just informed by a colleague and friend. I am also an “Azorean-Canadian’ and it is always with great interest that I read about projects that promote our heritage. You may want to check this site (http://tv3.rtp.pt/icmblogs/rtp/comunidades/) in case you would like to submit material for publication. Also the new InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (a project by two Azorean-academics )migh be of interest to you (http://portuguese-diaspora-studies.com/index.php/ijpds) . Surgite! Best Regards, Irene
Hi Irene,
Thank you for your support of my project. I am familiar with IJPDS and your Comunidades site and will definitely consider submitting material to you in the future. Thank you!
~ Fernanda
My name is Sarah Sequeira and I am a Humber College Journalism Student located in Toronto, Ontario.
I am currently working on my thesis and am focusing on the Terceirence Carnival and the significance it has to the Terceirence immigrants here in Toronto.
I would like to speak with you regarding my topic, if you are interested.
My name is Elizabeth Fischbach, from Los Angeles. I happened upon your website while researching the Island of Flores and trying to make sense of a family tree I found online, it outlines a very dense ancestral line dating back to the early 18th century on the island of Flores. The person who put this together is a descended of one of my Great Grandmothers 13 children. I don’t know him.
My great grandmother, Joaquina Freitas Martins-Lucio, came to the San Joaquin Valley of central California as a teenager from Flores around the turn of the 20th century.. She married Françisco Maurício de Fraga who was also from Flores. Apparently, she was a slave on the island, stole gold from her father and hopped on a ship to the US. I also gleamed that her language here until her death was a mixture of English and Portuguese with a little bit of Chinese. I read your post about the tomb of Antonio de Freitas who might have been my great grandmothers great grandfather, António de Freitas who was married to Maria de São Pedro (Pimentel) Freitas. Maybe just a common name? The Chinese wife of his made this connection a more plausible, even though she didn’t last long. Anyway, I am very excited to have found your website, perhaps 7 years to late. I will continue to read your website for more information, it’s really interesting! Do you still publish information about the island of Flores somewhere written or a site that I’m not finding? For some reason I’m very drawn to this subject and would very much like to visit the island.
Elizabeth, so sorry for the delay in responding but I’ve only just recently obtained access to this old blog of mine. Can you contact me at fernanda@shaw.ca? I’d love to discuss this connection between your family and the woman married to Antonio de Freitas.
The Literary Interests of a Late-Blooming Lusophile 
We are kin. I’d like to promote your work to the AzoresNation.
FYI… Just added your RSS to the homepage. Below fold, but I’m glad to read I’m not the only one. I hope the members of AN submit content for you anthology. Should we collaborate?
Hey, thanks for adding my RSS to the Azores Nation homepage. I’ll email you.
Thanks Fernanda for your comment on Three men and a Redhead. Patrick Brady
Ola Fernanda. Parabéns pelo Blog. Serei um fiel seguidor. Apesar de não ser açoriano sou português. Beijo
Love your writing, please keep writing things most of us are afraid to say!
I enjoy your work. Thanks. I was born in the island of Flores, came to California when I was 16 and I have spend the my life living with one foot on each side of the Atlantic. When I go to Flores I love it but I no longer belong there since everything and everyone has changed. There I am an American. I come back and I miss being there and here in California I am an Azorian…I guess that it is true you can leave the island but the island does not leave you. Thanks and please keep writing.
I wasn’t even born on Flores and the place still haunts me. Unfinished karma perhaps.
Thanks for reading!
Congratulations, Fernanda on this project., which I was just informed by a colleague and friend. I am also an “Azorean-Canadian’ and it is always with great interest that I read about projects that promote our heritage. You may want to check this site (http://tv3.rtp.pt/icmblogs/rtp/comunidades/) in case you would like to submit material for publication. Also the new InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (a project by two Azorean-academics )migh be of interest to you (http://portuguese-diaspora-studies.com/index.php/ijpds) . Surgite! Best Regards, Irene
Hi Irene,
Thank you for your support of my project. I am familiar with IJPDS and your Comunidades site and will definitely consider submitting material to you in the future. Thank you!
~ Fernanda
Hello,
My name is Sarah Sequeira and I am a Humber College Journalism Student located in Toronto, Ontario.
I am currently working on my thesis and am focusing on the Terceirence Carnival and the significance it has to the Terceirence immigrants here in Toronto.
I would like to speak with you regarding my topic, if you are interested.
Regards,
Sarah Sequeira
Dear Fernanda,
My name is Elizabeth Fischbach, from Los Angeles. I happened upon your website while researching the Island of Flores and trying to make sense of a family tree I found online, it outlines a very dense ancestral line dating back to the early 18th century on the island of Flores. The person who put this together is a descended of one of my Great Grandmothers 13 children. I don’t know him.
My great grandmother, Joaquina Freitas Martins-Lucio, came to the San Joaquin Valley of central California as a teenager from Flores around the turn of the 20th century.. She married Françisco Maurício de Fraga who was also from Flores. Apparently, she was a slave on the island, stole gold from her father and hopped on a ship to the US. I also gleamed that her language here until her death was a mixture of English and Portuguese with a little bit of Chinese. I read your post about the tomb of Antonio de Freitas who might have been my great grandmothers great grandfather, António de Freitas who was married to Maria de São Pedro (Pimentel) Freitas. Maybe just a common name? The Chinese wife of his made this connection a more plausible, even though she didn’t last long. Anyway, I am very excited to have found your website, perhaps 7 years to late. I will continue to read your website for more information, it’s really interesting! Do you still publish information about the island of Flores somewhere written or a site that I’m not finding? For some reason I’m very drawn to this subject and would very much like to visit the island.
Thank you for your time.
All best,
Liz
Elizabeth, so sorry for the delay in responding but I’ve only just recently obtained access to this old blog of mine. Can you contact me at fernanda@shaw.ca? I’d love to discuss this connection between your family and the woman married to Antonio de Freitas.