Young Mexican immigrants bridge 'here' and 'there' with mural

Look at this website and see the pictures of the murals. They are wonderful.   - - Donna Poisl

By Elisabeth Perez-Luna

In the past 10 years or so, South Philadelphia has been transformed by Mexican immigrants. They opened stores and restaurants, right next to ones opened by earlier waves of Italian and Irish immigrants. This summer, a group of Mexican immigrant teens has been working on telling their stories of migration and displacement though a mural.

Freddy Argulla, 19, grew up between two cities -- Puebla and Philadelphia. He moved here when he was 11 and left behind a grandmother he called "mi mama." He never saw her again, and he never forgot.

It's not a story he liked to tell, so he kept quiet. But now it's there for all to see in a large panel he designed and painted for a mural at Sixth and Dickinson streets.
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