Asturian-American Migration Forum

Hello,

I just wanted to inquire:

Whats the status of the symposium? I notice that the last message on this post dates to late 2006. I hope all is going well.

The band Brenga Astur often features, on its CDs, drawings of a dragon playing the Gaita. Click on the page below, and they have a somewhat fuzzy, out-of-focus, version of it at the lower left. http://www.brengaastur.com/ingles/princien.asp Its a bit blurry in this picture, but it looks quite cool a...

I was looking through the following article on Asturian family names in the Americas: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~roser/pubs/rfa_names.pdf In the article, I found a reference to Asturian sailor Pedro Menendez de Aviles, the founder of St. Augustine, Florida, and the first Spanish governor of Florida...

I have enjoyed looking through your website and reading your discussions in the forum. I'm joining your group now, and perhaps later will be able to contribute to the forum. My parents were both born in Cuba, and emigrated to the United States during the early 1960s. I was born here in the United St...