The women captured here are West Indians, something I understood intuitively based on their costuming, posture, and gait. Both photographs were taken this fall in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one in the health food co-op I belong to, and where the woman with the cart was buying bottled water and sorrel, the other as I was walking down Massachusetts Avenue toward Central Square, by far the most interesting part of town. I recall my father saying he had family here, but I don’t know them. Still, I see them.
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