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Genna Martin

The Hot and Fresh pizza truck in Angra do Heroísmo is one of the few food sellers, other than grocery stores, that remain open. Some restaurants are offering takeaway and delivery services.

Igreja da Misericordia, an 18th century cathedral and popular tourist attraction in Angra do Heroísmo, is now closed to the public.

In Angra do Heroísmo, a mural by Portuguese artist Carolina Celas depicts Azorean emigrants saying goodbye to loved ones before boarding a ship.

Two young women stroll through São Mateus da Calheta on March 15, 2020, ten days before the first local transmission of COVID-19 was registered in the town.

A pair of ducks wanders past a man entertaining himself with a soccer ball on the empty waterfront plaza in Angra do Heroísmo.

Starting on the lower left-hand page, this document records the December 21, 1893, marriage of the writer’s great-great-grandparents, Manuel Caetano Borges and Margarida Augusta da Rocha Lopes, who wed on Terceira Island and later emigrated to California to start a dairy farm.

Cows graze on a hillside above the southeastern coast of Terceira Island, where the bovines outnumber people two to one. Barns are rare, so herds roam the island’s vast patchwork of pastures.

A plane leaving Lajes International Airport on Terceira Island soars above the Immaculate Heart of Mary monument in Praia da Vitória on March 16, 2020. Later that day, flights to and from the island were suspended for all but one airline.

In the Azorean town of Angra do Heroísmo, a lone man looks out over the quiet marina on March 22, 2020, after a coronavirus-related ban on recreational boating.

The morning sun illuminates a rural town on São Miguel Island. Before the pandemic, Azorean tourism had been on the rise, with 698,325 visitors in 2019, a nearly 85 percent increase since 2014.