Lithuanians in the USA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lithuanians in the USA write by David Fainhauz. This book was released on 1991. Lithuanians in the USA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lithuanian Emigration to the United States
Lithuanian Emigration to the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lithuanian Emigration to the United States write by Alfonsas Eidintas. This book was released on 2003. Lithuanian Emigration to the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lithuanians in America, 1651-1975
The Lithuanians in America, 1651-1975 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lithuanians in America, 1651-1975 write by Algirdas M. Budreckis. This book was released on 1976. The Lithuanians in America, 1651-1975 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A chronology of Lithuanians in America from the 17th century to the present accompanied by pertinent documents.
Lithuanians in Michigan
Lithuanians in Michigan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lithuanians in Michigan write by Marius K. Grazulis. This book was released on 2009-03-11. Lithuanians in Michigan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Lithuanians in Michigan Marius Grazulis recounts the history of an immigrant group that has struggled to maintain its identity. Grazulis estimates that about 20 percent of the 1.6 million Lithuanians who immigrated to the United States arrived on American shores between 1860 and 1918. While first-wave immigrants stayed mostly on the east coast, by 1920 about one-third of newly immigrated Lithuanians lived in Michigan, working in heavy industry and mining. With remarkable detail, Grazulis traces the ways these groups have maintained their ethnic identity in Michigan in the face of changing demographics in their neighborhoods and changing interests among their children, along with the challenges posed by newly arriving "modern" Lithuanian immigrants, who did not read the same books, sing the same songs, celebrate the same holidays, or even speak the same language that previous waves of Lithuanian immigrants had preserved in America. Anyone interested in immigrant history will find Lithuanians in Michigan simultaneously familiar, fascinating, and moving.
White Field, Black Sheep
White Field, Black Sheep - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Field, Black Sheep write by Daiva Markelis. This book was released on 2010-11-15. White Field, Black Sheep available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Her parents never really explained what a D.P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that “displaced person” was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, though, Markelis had only heard the name T.P., since her folks pronounced the D as a T: “In first grade we had learned about the Plains Indians, who had lived in tent-like dwellings made of wood and buffalo skin called teepees. In my childish confusion, I thought that perhaps my parents weren’t Lithuanian at all, but Cherokee. I went around telling people that I was the child of teepees.” So begins this touching and affectionate memoir about growing up as a daughter of Lithuanian immigrants. Markelis was raised during the 1960s and 1970s in a household where Lithuanian was the first language. White Field, Black Sheep derives much of its charm from this collision of old world and new: a tough but cultured generation that can’t quite understand the ways of America and a younger one weaned on Barbie dolls and The Brady Bunch, Hostess cupcakes and comic books, The Monkees and Captain Kangaroo. Throughout, Markelis recalls the amusing contortions of language and identity that animated her childhood. She also humorously recollects the touchstones of her youth, from her First Communion to her first game of Twister. Ultimately, she revisits the troubles that surfaced in the wake of her assimilation into American culture: the constricting expectations of her family and community, her problems with alcoholism and depression, and her sometimes contentious but always loving relationship with her mother. Deftly recreating the emotional world of adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, White Field, Black Sheep is a poignant and moving memoir—a lively tale of this Lithuanian-American life.
