My Memoirs - Citizen of the World

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In September 1999, I was invited by my good friend Francisco Cabral to become a member of the Prince Henry Society – Fall River Chapter. It is a non-profit organization that promotes Portuguese culture, maintains Portuguese monuments, and gives a great deal of scholarship money to the children of Portuguese ancestry. We also promote fundraising events such as the famous concert held each year at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. I was chairman of the Humanitarian Committee, distributing food and clothes to the poor and unfortunate. This wonderful society also donates money and food to soup kitchens in the Fall River area. This is a great organization. It makes me very happy and proud to be surrounded by so many unselfish, beautiful human beings whose only objective is to make a difference in peoples’ lives. I was asked, along with other people outside the judicial system in the State of Rhode Island, to advise the Chief Justice about the R.I. Judicial Performance Evaluation Program for 1995 and 1996. We attended many trials and, in the end, we made a complete report stating the areas we felt needed changes and/or improvement. I was appointed by Governor Lincoln Almond to the Travel Commission from 1998 to 2000 to help draft legislation to be submitted to the R.I. House and Senate in order to change and update the rules and regulations for travel agencies in the State. At the time, Rhode Island was one of only a few states in the nation that required a Licensing Bill authorizing all those engaged in the travel business. This law required a surety bond and other qualifications to protect the consumers from unscrupulous people who, without qualifications or with a criminal record, could not be issued a license. This was a result of a travel agency in Rhode Island that ran off with thousands of dollars paid by a group of clients who were scheduled to go on a cruise. I was asked in 1993 to be the Bristol Heart Association Fundraising Campaign Chairman by Rhode Island State 105
Representative Kelly Parella, now deceased. I formed a committee and we organized several activities, including a dinnerdance at St. Elizabeth's Church Auditorium - the parish that our family belongs to - with the help of Father Louis Diogo. Our campaign raised an amount that was the most recorded until 1993, which made us all very happy and proud. Rehabilitation of the Kaiser Mill Complex The Kaiser Aluminum plant closed down in the seventies. In 1977, the owners donated the entire complex to Roger Williams College, known today as Roger Williams University. In 1979, the college was going to sell the mill to a developer who was looking to change the zoning and build Section 8 Housing in one of the buildings. The neighborhood around the Kaiser Mill joined together to oppose the construction for two reasons: a) There was no guarantee that it would only be occupied by elderly people, so they were afraid that it would attract undesirable people as well as drugs, prostitution, criminals, etc. b) There was no comprehensive plan for the rest of the complex which would continue to degrade the center of our beautiful town. I was home one evening when I received a call from my good friend Dr. Manuel Luciano da Silva. He said he had just finished a meeting with the neighbors of the Kaiser Mill, and that they had elected me, unanimously, to be the president of the Kaiser Neighbors’ Committee. I told him that I didn’t know what the committee was all about. A couple of days later, I attended a meeting at the Dom Luiz Filipe Society with all the neighbors present. I was given a briefing and I accepted the challenge to become their president and spokesperson. At the time, I was the official travel agent for the local college. My wife was totally against my intervention with one of our best 106
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements .........
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The Modern Magellan! PREFACE Freder
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INTRODUCTION I was born and raised
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In addition to the age difference,
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factory, Loreto. Shortly after that
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taught the village children to read
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Recently I learned that the Azores
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My Grandmother’s Cherimoyer Tree
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Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Tarzan an
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dos Capas that belonged to the pare
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mother and confined to the house fo
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organ transplants, performing the f
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The Education System in the Azores,
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it. In most cases, I have to give a
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Above is a design made in 1933, of
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School teacher, recognized that she
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The statue, according to tradition,
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My Father’s Bankruptcy My father
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MY FAMILY’S NEW LIFE After My Fat
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school education. I completed the f
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her life. She was used to being a h
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a real sword. I developed such an i
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When I arrived at the capital city
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Captain Joaquim Barros, needed to s
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military instructions from 8am to 1
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nervous girl to the point of hyster
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Management. I left Lages Field on a
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Our Rotary Shows During my 35 years
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Bristol Rotary Bristol Rotary Show,
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Romeo: With love's wings did I fly
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1 was not wearing my glasses and I
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We chartered more than 50 buses to
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Another time, at about 1 o’clock
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not going to tell me anything perta
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The Birth of our Granddaughters On
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the devotion and sincerity of every
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My Hobbies and Recreation It is no
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happy when my family and friends ar
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desire for an ideal and fair world.
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operators, cruise lines, hotels, tr
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links are among the most attractive
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were walking down a main avenue, lo
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of art, the Mona Lisa, Venus de Mil
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The town’s quaint streets, pretty
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Some of the places that we visited
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Poland For our trip to Poland, we f
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Glaciers of Alaska Glaciers of Alas
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Hungary From there we continued our
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acquired all the documentation that
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And finally we went to Copenhagen,
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that they found out that someone fr
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minutes with the line never moving
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looked like an underground art muse
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took my camera and destroyed all th
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houseboats and barges. We loved to
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sure to return it to right person.
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signing ceremony of the most import
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Tweet’s Restaurant in Bristol, wh
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One story is about what happened to
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arriving in Jerusalem. There is no
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out of the sea and cross the beach
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the family and their children who t
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about the people as formidable warr
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another hotel. The next morning, we
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who come every day, from all over t
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Deodete dressed in in a silk sari D
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From Goa, we flew to New Delhi, Ind
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Africans were forced to live, after
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eing pushed around to purchase anyt
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flowers, we were surprised with the
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Greenwich Village is a large reside
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a nice dinner at a seafood restaura
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fully mature, they swim back to the
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Mexico We have travelled extensivel
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many years, used to spend time. It
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observe the potential of making Hai
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Costa Rica Deodete and I flew to Sa
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We flew to Brasilia, the new capita
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façade of Colon Theater; then La B
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I hope that perhaps, my memoirs cou
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ABOUT THE EDITOR Diana Botelho Camp
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