Becoming Cuban American — in New Hampshire • New Hampshire Bulletin

Becoming Cuban American — in New Hampshire • New Hampshire Bulletin

Four generations of the Hebra and Abelleira families, Noche Buena (Christmas Eve), Merrimack, New Hampshire, 2013. (Courtesy of Ana Hebra Flaster)There are approximately 63,000 Latinos living in New Hampshire today, just under 5% of the population. But when we arrived as political refugees fleeing the Cuban revolution in December 1967, Latinos were hard to find, Cubans in particular. If we heard someone speaking Spanish at the grocery store, we …