BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Amesbury's Cashman Elementary School fourth-graders reenacted immigrants entering Ellis Island in the early 19th century. It was part of studies of what immigrants were about including the Pilgrims. Parent volunteer Michelle Parsons checks the heart of Nikayla Cusick, 9, playing an immigrant from Brazil,before she's "allowed" into the United States.

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