‘Appreciation for one’s roots’: Latino professionals honor family heritage on social media
“Bismarck Lepe’s earliest memories of spending time with his parents riding in the family’s Ford Granada in the early 1980s as they went from Mexico to Southern California to pick lemons and strawberries, then to the Central Valley to pick apricots, peaches and nectarines, then to northern Washington to pick apples — and then back to Mexico.
In Gridley, California, especially, he remembered how the “brutally cold” mornings would become warm by noon. It became a kind of “Groundhog Day” routine as he followed his parents’ field work, occasionally sharing housing with other migrant workers along the West Coast and knowing just…”
