At a recent farmers’ market in Anchorage’s Mountain view neighborhood, a pair stuck out from the diverse crowd that included refugee and immigrant growers and small business owners, as music played and vendors sold produce, confections and crafts.
A tall man in glasses selling brightly colored paintings smiled as he towered over a diminutive nun with a look of adoration.
Noel Perez Delgado started out as an architect in Cuba before coming to the U.S. But a global pandemic, a debilitating illness and an injury left him unemployed — and homeless — in Anchorage. Then he met Sister Lucia-Lam Nguyen, a Catholic nun, who taught him to paint…