The role of 'el lector' in Ybor City's cigar factories

Описание: To mark the 111th anniversary of 'El Reloj,' the last working cigar factory in Tampa, Eric Newman and his family invited special guests to be lectors, the first to fill that role since the Tampa cigar factories did away with them in 1931.

One of the guest lectors was Mario Nunez, whose great grandparents came to Tampa to work in the cigar factories.

"They worked long hours and that smell of tobacco was on them the next morning," offered Nunez, "So it wasn’t an easy time, but it was a time."

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