[SEMCO] Who Are the Cape Verdeans with Barbara Burgo

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
June 13, 
2017 
Teresa Izzo
                                                                        508-896-3867 
ext. 137
                                                            tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging Into the Past
Who Are The Cape Verdeans?
  with
   Barbara Monteiro Burgo


BREWSTER, MA ­ The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History in Brewster presents “Who Are the Cape 
Verdeans” with Barbara Monteiro Burgo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 1pm.

  The Archipelago of 10 islands known as the Cape 
Verde Islands in the Atlantic is approximately 
380 miles off the West Coast of Africa, near 
Senegal.  Many who live here on Cape Cod have 
heard that the cranberry industry was built on 
the backs of Cape Verdean immigrants especially 
in places like Harwich, Plymouth and Wareham, 
however, most don’t know of the early settlements 
on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. According to 
the Nantucket Historical Society, the early Cape 
Verdean immigrants were recruited by outward 
bound Nantucket whaleship voyages that stopped at 
the Cape Verde islands of Brava and Fogo. Some of 
these crewmen came back to Nantucket, settled 
on-island and found wives in Nantucket’s African American community.

Join Barbara Burgo for a presentation and 
discussion on the history of Cape Verdeans on 
Cape Cod and how a small group of local Cape 
Verdeans have been educating Cape Cod residents, 
visitors and school children about the long and 
amazing journey of many of the earliest Cape Verdeans to these shores.

Barbara Burgo is from Taunton, MA and graduated 
in 2005 from Rhode Island College with a Major in 
Cultural Anthropology (Magna Cum Laude) and a 
Minor in Women’s Studies.  In 2012, she returned 
to her “roots” and served as Curator for a Cape 
Verdean Summer Exhibit titled So Sabi! (Loosely 
translated as So Good!) at the Brooks Academy Museum in Harwich

  Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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