True Immigrant Stories_14: “I Was Weak in the Knees”
February 4, 2014
[This is another firsthand immigrant account from my oral history collection. Louis Adamic was a prominent Slovene-American writer who migrated to America in December 1913 at age 15.] “Now and then I glanced at the noisy, picturesque, garlicky crowd on the steerage deck; people of perhaps a dozen nationalities milling around the … More True Immigrant Stories_14: “I Was Weak in the Knees”