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Interview with Benigno Pesantes duration 38 minutes 54 seconds Interview with Benigno Pesantes Interview with Benigno Pesantes	Interview with Benigno Pesantes Benigno "Ben" Pesantes (50) and Erika Pesantes (29) talk about Ben’s family’s immigration from Ecuador to the U.S., his family life now, and his hopes to travel in the future. recipes ritual foods favorite foods ethnic foods immigration stories appearance ethnicity family reunions family trips and excursions family traditions workday life labor movements and unions job satisfaction strikes and protests first job first impression of america marriage birth of first child death cemetery traditions anecdotes (humorous but true stories) personal experiences memories of former times memories of growing up school day memories religious beliefs and practices town life urban life schools teachers students college achievements and awards graduation cohorts (groups of friends) spouse children extended family grandparents parents siblings ecuadorian food caldo de pollo caldo blanco humitas ayacas plantain flour caldo de bola shrimp mozzarella queso blanco manzana de coco new york miami ecuador visa work visa seamstress cooking curly hair overweight lush hair flea market culture shock midwest mobile home travel banana plantation management union strikes protests communist blacklist severance pay graves post office high school job budapest church wife robbery high school dominican colombian argentina ice skate english spanish catholic lutheran priest’s aid miami florida pace of life master’s school friends anglo friends latin friends From - UM Libraries 0 likes 0 plays 0 Access Restrictions Access to this content is limited to computers in the Richter Library on the University of Miami campus. Please visit the library to view this content. Visitors not affiliated with the University of Miami should consult the library’s patron access policy. Digital Collections Link University of Miami Digital Collections Creator Pesantes, Benigno Pesantes, Erika Genre Oral histories Language English Spanish Creation Date January 16, 2010 Creation Place Miami (Fla.) Contributing Unit University of Miami Libraries Repository Cuban Heritage Collection Rights Statement Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. www.storycorps.org. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/. Content Type Sound Local Identifier chc52460000650001001

duration 38 minutes 54 seconds

Interview with Benigno Pesantes

Benigno "Ben" Pesantes (50) and Erika Pesantes (29) talk about Ben’s family’s immigration from Ecuador to the U.S., his family life now, and his hopes to travel in the future.

family trips and excursions

family traditions

workday life

labor movements and unions

job satisfaction

strikes and protests

first job

first impression of america

anecdotes (humorous but true stories)

personal experiences

memories of former times

memories of growing up

school day memories

religious beliefs and practices

achievements and awards

graduation

cohorts (groups of friends)

From - UM Libraries 0 likes 0 plays 0

Access Restrictions

Access to this content is limited to computers in the Richter Library on the University of Miami campus. Please visit the library to view this content. Visitors not affiliated with the University of Miami should consult the library’s patron access policy.

Digital Collections Link

University of Miami Digital Collections

Creator

Pesantes, Benigno

Pesantes, Erika

Genre

Oral histories

Language

English

Spanish

Creation Date

January 16, 2010

Creation Place

Miami (Fla.)

Contributing Unit

University of Miami Libraries

Repository

Cuban Heritage Collection

Rights Statement

Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. www.storycorps.org. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/.

Content Type

Sound

Local Identifier

chc52460000650001001