Saturday, August 30, 2008

most of us are immigrants

immigrant worker

My great great grandfather Soren Björnson worked here in the 1890s, as a recent immigrant from Norway. It was a box factory for Nabisco, and then Phil Container after that, until just last year when it was boarded up and the jobs were shipped overseas.

Marseilles, IL

(re most of us: in the U.S., I mean.)

1 comment:

mrtn said...

Actually, all of you are. Even the natives. They're just older immigrants than the rest of you. We all walked out of Africa at some point.

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