Immigrant Stories

Mercedes Garcia was fifteen when El Salvador's civil war came to her village. Tune in as she remembers her childhood and her perilous journey to the United States.

On this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Kathleen Fitzsimmons, a frontier mining historian and Leadville, Colorado native describes the life of Irish immigrant miners during Leadville's silver rush of the 1880s.

On this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Diana Higuera, the founder and director of the Rocky Mountain Welcome Center in Denver, remembers the Venezuela of her childhood and talks about why millions of Venezuelans are fleeing what was once the richest country in South America.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories we hear from Elizabeth Boomhower who grew up in the Netherlands in the 1930s when her country was known as Holland. She remembers the summer of her nineteenth year, 1940, when the Germans jumped out of the sky and took her country.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, Spany Mburunyeme describes how his family escaped the chaos of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when he was a child.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher speaks with Minani Theoneste. This April marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Tune in as Minani Theoneste remembers his family's escape from the violence and their search for home.

On this month's episode of Immigrant Stories, Gloria Perez reflects on her journey from Mexico to a life of community service and leadership in Leadville, Colorado.

This month we revisit a past episode of Immigrant Stories. Tune in as Pat and Tony Tonozzi talk about how they fell in love and sustained it for seventy-five years.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, Jose Miranda water buffalo rancher and former resident of the Roaring Fork Valley describes the desperate conditions in Venezuela that forced him and his family to flee in 2014.

On this episode of Immigrant Stories, Part 2, host Walter Gallacher speaks with Traolach O'Riordain, director of Irish Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. He remembers growing up in Ireland and describes how Irish immigrants changed life in the United States and Ireland.