New Assemblage~Dream

I have always admired those that came through Ellis Island so many years ago. My grandparents did, that's them with their children in my header, they were so young when they made the journey here. I've told this story before, but like my kids you'll have to hear it again... they did not know eachother when they rode the same ship here. They met in America through mutual friends and then found out that back home in Austria they only lived a village away from eachother, rode the same ship at the same time to a new life in America holding the same dreams of a better life.
This is not a photo of them but I imagine they looked very similar.

I am so grateful that they were so brave. I've read so much of the passage through Ellis Island and imagine that must have been the most frightening part of the journey. You are so close to your destination and yet someone could close the door on you.

Your dreams could be squashed. So many left family and friends behind without so much as anything but a dream to sustain them.

I am grateful to my grandparents for following their dreams, so that years down the road myself and my children and future generations could follow ours.

Thanks for stopping by, Theresa xoxo