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Two immigrants. One frozen waterfall. Four generations. This is my love letter to America.
This collage, titled "From Sea to Shining Sea," began as a love letter to this country that I owe so much to.
In the 1920s, my father and his family immigrated to America from Poland. In the 1930s, my mother and grandmother immigrated to America from Austria. Two strangers crossed an ocean, hoping for a chance at a good life. America took them in. They found each other in Brooklyn. Their honeymoon was Niagara Falls, the one year it froze over completely — a once-in-a-lifetime sight for a once-in-a-lifetime love. They started a business together and built a family that today is four generations strong, and still growing.
Each inch of this collage is America as I see it because of them: the Capitol dome and the Golden Gate Bridge, a wedding chapel and a covered wagon, a quiet bench in a meadow, a hummingbird in the marigolds — the big landmarks and the small, ordinary moments — all the things my family got to have because two people took a chance on this country.
Two immigrants. One frozen waterfall. Four generations. This is my love letter to America.
This collage, titled "From Sea to Shining Sea," began as a love letter to this country that I owe so much to.
In the 1920s, my father and his family immigrated to America from Poland. In the 1930s, my mother and grandmother immigrated to America from Austria. Two strangers crossed an ocean, hoping for a chance at a good life. America took them in. They found each other in Brooklyn. Their honeymoon was Niagara Falls, the one year it froze over completely — a once-in-a-lifetime sight for a once-in-a-lifetime love. They started a business together and built a family that today is four generations strong, and still growing.
Each inch of this collage is America as I see it because of them: the Capitol dome and the Golden Gate Bridge, a wedding chapel and a covered wagon, a quiet bench in a meadow, a hummingbird in the marigolds — the big landmarks and the small, ordinary moments — all the things my family got to have because two people took a chance on this country.