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Casitas built between 1895 and the early 1900s for cigar workers' families were among the earliest structures in Ybor City.  The houses rented for $1.50 to $2.50 and payments were deducted from the worker's wages.  Tampa Poet Silvia Curbelo wrote the following poem which is on the piece:

The Coarse, gritty feel of the leaves
is music in my fingers,
a story I tell over and over,
slowly, like a man in love.
My hands move through a day's wages.

 


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