To My Parents in Memoriam

Antonio Colón and Eufrosina Ramos

My parents were very special to us because they both worked hard to give us an education in order to face the working force with better opportunities and fulfillment. My father worked with a sugar mill central called "Central Carmen". The vast sugar-cane fields were located between Dorado and Toa Baja, Puerto Rico (PR). He devoted all his life to work as a payroll clerk at the beginning and then worked as an administrator overseeing that the sugar cane be cut on the proper time and be hauled to the sugar-cane mills to be processed. Also was responsible in overseeing the growing of new fields that required fertilizers and removed the weeds that prevented the development of old and new sugar-cane fields. It was the time of the Railroad that hauled passengers from the North to the West and back. Also, throughout the island a lot of railroad wagons were used to haul the sugar cane to all the sugar-cane mills. At that time we didn't have computers and the pencil was a great tool. Actually, the industrialization took over the agriculture that has failed and almost all the sugar-cane mills have disappeared except quite a few that are struggling to subsist. I can really notice the transformation that my country has undergone. In my memory remained all the the good "momentos" of the epoch that I can't never forget.  I like to dedicate these pages, to my parents, as well to all the good people that contributed to development of Puerto Rico. God bless them!

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