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Archive Home > 2002 > March > 31 > Fields to Dreams

Fields to Dreams

Five migrant workers journeyed to Madras looking for opportunity. What they found was a place to raise their families.

By Julia Lyon / The Bulletin
March 31, 2002

In some ways, Jefferson County is not unlike some parts of Mexico. The dry hot summers, the lines of mountains, they remind some immigrants of the world they left behind.

"The only difference is there's not cactus - there's juniper," said Manuela Nuez Wickham, a Madras resident who....

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