Apr 26, 2019

“A Boatload of Horses”: Alan Jabbour’s Family Immigration Saga

Introduction Dr. Alan Jabbour, Syrian American, first told me of his grandfather’s travel to America with “a boatload of horses” back in the late 1970s when he made a brief visit to Austin, Texas, to meet with the folklore community there. I was at the time one of many folklore graduate students at the University…