I'd have to say I took to it like a fish to water. The first mother I met, I walked into her kitchen and I felt like I was in Mexico. I loved it. Mariachi Mexicanisimo leads the parade, Los Ginantes follow. I didn't have to go Mexico any more, Mexico is here.
Someone comes and finds work, the place needs more workers and they tell their friends and family.
A lot of the women went to work in the fish-processing plants in Fields Landing and Eureka. Some of the families have moved out of Ferndale into Fortuna. Some are buying their own houses. Many have decided not to work in the dairies any more. While we are talking, Ernesto, a first-grader, peeks his head in the door.