After more than a decade in the real estate business, Rebecca Anne Robertson said she concluded it was “quite an unfriendly world” and quit her job. A friend, as a gesture of support, gave Robertson a piece of fused glass crafted by a Guatemalan artist, and unknowingly charted Robertson’s new path.
Residents of this drab, industrial town where President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rose to prominence as a labor leader remain loyal to him despite the scandals that have rocked his presidency.
The writing was on the wall at a very early age for Ferndale's Bob White - at four years of age he had a thing for boats. Seventy-two years later, little has changed.