Chuck Culpepper
speaker
568 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2023
last heard 8 Jul
Chuck Culpepper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's because, historically, it just doesn't rain enough.
And people have had to leave.
And those who have left tell these stories about, say, for example...
as they were kids, day-long ventures to do the laundry involving two-hour walks to find a place that has water and then drying the clothes on the rocks and then coming back.
And that story, just as an example, sort of tells us the hardship at times through history of living there and the people who
hail from there, whose parents or grandparents come from there, have great fondness for the land and for the country, but often go away to, say,
The Netherlands or the U.S., New England, mostly.
I was about 10 years ago, I was having a conversation with someone from there,
whose family had settled in Boston.
And I never thought to ask sort of what, you know, it didn't seem to make sense to me.
But again, here's something that I learned doing the story, which is that it all has its origins, say, in the 19th century in the whaling industry.
And out on the seas, the whaling ships from New England, especially New Bedford, Massachusetts.
started bringing people from Cape Verde to the U.S., and there's a whaling museum, fantastic place in New Bedford.
And, of course, the last whaling ship left and came back around 1925, so we don't do that anymore.
It's still a major fishing port.
But, you know, it caused and led to
You know, when I was there a few weeks ago, they had a fashion show to welcome the team, a friendly match with Bermuda in Hartford.
They had a full stadium welcoming the team with just a ceremony that was in Pawtucket.
And it's all up there.
And it's quite a story of how it got there.
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