{"id":24051,"date":"2024-02-27T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24051"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:30:15","slug":"far-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/far-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Far &#038; Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f4f4f4&amp;d=portland_magazine_febmar&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=36&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">\u201cI am the first son of the first son of the first son of the first Chinese immigrant in Maine.\u201d \u2014<i> <\/i><em><span class=\"s1\">Dickie Cough of Bar Harbor<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><i>Story By Colin S. Sargent<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">You never know what you might find in your neighbor\u2019s attic in Maine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cMy great-great- grandfather was 15 when he stowed away on a ship sailing from Amoy (Xiamen), China to Southwest Harbor.\u201d Daniel \u201cDickie\u201d Cough isn\u2019t sure if the boy knew where he was landing, except that it was in America. \u201cApparently, it worked out well. Captain Sylvester Lord took a liking to Kau Fu\u2014later named Daniel Cough by the immigration officer when Fu couldn\u2019t explain the spelling\u2014because he gave him a piece of land in Bass Harbor that was later named \u2018Chinaman\u2019s Hill\u2019 by locals.\u201d The house he built was still standing until 2001.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FarNear-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FarNear-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FarNear-1-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FarNear-1-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longevity of immigration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1292],"class_list":["post-24051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-february-march-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24111,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051\/revisions\/24111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}