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The weather was poor that morning.
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My first impressions of the New World will always
remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy
October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. The
steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples, filled to
capacity with 1600 natives of Italy, had weathered one of
the worst storms in our captain's memory; and glad we
were, both children and grown-ups, to leave the open sea
and come at last through the Narrows into the Bay.
-Edward Corsi, Italian immigrant from Immigrant
Kids,
Russell Freedman
The immigrants were happy to arrive.
The steamer was overcrowded.
The memory was unforgettable.