Monte Belmonte

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Born As An American on The Fourth of July

Northampton’s Independance Day Naturalization Ceremony is a wonderful way to focus for a few hours on the goodness that still exists in the idea of America. Monte talks with Laurie Millman, the director of The Center for New Americans, who co-sponsors the event and helps many immigrants down the pathway to citizenship and a Montague man, origianlly from Jamaica, who just made that journey.

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