Hello everyone. My name is Maria and I am an educator at History Miami Museum and I am here today to share a little bit of my Miami story.

I’ve been with Vizcaya for 17 years, but I first moved to Miami over 25 years ago in the mid-1990s.

[foreign language 00:00:23]. Hello everyone. My name is Cidelca. I was born and raised in Haiti. The story of me coming to the US really started with my uncle.

Miami Stories was established back in 2009, and the program was created in order to document life in South Florida. And we do that by asking the public, the community to submit their stories about life in Miami. It’s really an oral history project. We want to know what their story is. There’s a few ways you can submit your Miami story. You can visit our website at historymiami.org and you can submit your written story, an audio recording or a video submission, or you can visit our partner Beyond Vizcaya and submit your story through that link.

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Miami is about people that are from somewhere else going back 10,000 years. Even if you were born here, your parents, your grandparents came from somewhere else. So those stories of migration, they’re about forming a connection with the city, about establishing your roots, and about growing up in Miami. The people that live in South Florida now that live in Miami are rewriting history, and it’s so important to capture that as it happens. Those personal stories are really what make us unique.