Our matriarch, Adriana Alier Guzman, was a power house. Despite being forced into child labor at the age of six to support her family, as an adult she was an inventor of stitches and manager at that same factory. As a seamstress she immigrated here in the 30s from Puerto Rico and worked tirelessly for future generations. She truly could make anything with her hands, if she could only envision it. In her later life she was able to buy this property to raise her grandchild, and cultivate a garden. She found joy into her late 80s push-mowing the yard and growing vegetables. Some called her “The Energizer Bunny.”