Some history, I had not learned about yet. Some 7000 confederates left the south after the civil war and ended up in Brazil, where some of their descendants still live. ____ 1979 - I pressed the buzzer to the gate on the crest of a steep hill and waited, not knowing who or what to expect. I hadn’t written or called, and didn’t really expect to find anyone home. Within seconds, though, a dapper white-haired man with black metal-frame glasses came walking down the yards path in a chipper sort of way. He looked like Colonel Sanders’s twin, but without the goatee and moustache. After I fumbled something in Portuguese about my being an American and that I had come to write a story but wasnt sure that this was the right place, the man flashed a great big smile. “Well, yaw cum raht in,” he chirped excitedly. “I’ll git mah whife, and we’ll set us down and have us a rail nahce vis-i-ta-shun.” Say what?
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 01:34:25 +0000
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