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Miches and Cocoloco

Boys and red house with green windows. Miches

Miches village - still rustic even today

Old friends from my childhood

Yola (boat), Miches

Miches harbor

Friends visiting their old homes in Miches

Miches sunset

Casalata, 2013 - not inhabited and most trees destroyed by storms over the years

Storm coming in, Playa Arriba (Miches)

Hacienda Cocoloco

Rita with friends Lilia and Zuleica at Cocoloco 2013

Stormy horizon, Playa Esmeralda

Coconut plantation

Punta Hicaco in distance - coconut plantations

Cocoloco beach

View of Cocoloco from mountain range behenid Miches

Jovero River, near Cocoloco plantation

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Caribbean Blues

Sea grape bush and coconut fronds

Yola (boat), Miches

Punta Hicaco in distance - coconut plantations

Beach scene

Friends visiting their old homes in Miches

Boca Chica, Dominican Republic

The far point

An old dwelling on the road to Miches

Caribbean colors

Chairs my father made decades ago

In the water at Cocoloco

Modern transport, Miches (2013)

Blue house

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Images from childhood in Miches

Rita with Bobby and another dog

Old painting of the dictator Trujillo from the 1950s

Jesse and Emily Gardner at Cocoloco beach

Old photo of Rita hold large crab (circa 1954)

Berta, Mama, and Rita at Casalata

Berta on dock at Cocoloco beach (in 1950s)

Doing schoolwork

Helping my father at the copra drying rack

Old boat, Miches

Childhood friends

Rita and Berta in Frisky rowboat in the laguna

Berta before leaving for high school in U.S

Our dog Bobby trots behind my father on the dock

Jesse and Emily Gardner (1965)

Casalata - our home

Cockfighting ring, Miches

Daddy at the helm in our skiff

Mama next to coconut seedling at Casalata

Reunion

One of my paintings from age 12

Sunset cocoloco beach 001

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Una Ninez Entre Palmeras

Una Ninez Entre Palmeras

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Coconut Latitude Awards

2016 National Indie Excellence Award

2015 Indie Book Award

2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award

Rita on NPR Radio

Two exciting segments from The Coconut Latitudes read by Rita Gardner.

"Night of the Hurricane"

"Drums of Spring"

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