Rita M. Gardner

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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
Chairs my father made decades ago
The far point
In the water at Cocoloco
Modern transport, Miches (2013)
An old dwelling on the road to Miches
Caribbean colors
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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Coconut Latitudes

Coconut Latitudes
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Rita on NPR Radio

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

"Night of the Hurricane"

https://www.ritamgardner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/051315RitaGardner.mp3

"Drums of Spring"

https://www.ritamgardner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/051415RitaGardner2.mp3
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