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 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 Latitudes

Coconut Latitudes
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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"

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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