This Was Then: T. M. Silvia - The Martha's Vineyard Times
Theophilus Miguel “T. M.” Silvia was born in 1877 on Ilha de São Nicolau, a mountainous island in the Republic of Cabo Verde, the volcanic archipelago nation off the coast of West Africa known to Americans as Cape Verde. Silvia (whose surname many old-timers pronounced “Silvey”) came to the United States as a young man […]
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