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Interviewee Sort descending Collection Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Debra Soares Casting A Wider Net: A Community Oral History Project

This is a loving portrait of a single mother who worked extremely hard to provide for her children.  In this interview, Debra Soares describes her mother’s resilient, hardworking nature in the face of long, cold hours working as a fish processor.  She extolls the importance of extended kinship networks, the power of being raised by a village, and the sacrifices that the women in her mother’s generation and the first-generation immigrants from Cape Verde made working in the fish houses.

Colleen Pina-Garron New Bedford, MA New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
LaVerne Gomes Casting A Wider Net: A Community Oral History Project

In this interview, LaVerne Gomes begins by speaking about growing up in Wareham, Massachusetts, before moving to New Bedford, where she was raised by a single mother in a large Cape Verdean family. After dropping out of school at the age of 16, she pursued work in the Frionor Kitchen in New Bedford, where she worked in the cold fish house for 27 years, preparing frozen fish as it came off the conveyor belt.

Colleen Pina-Garron New Bedford, MA New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center