Growing up, Grampa Mike’s story was such a part of our family that it was, in a way, a non-story. We all knew that he immigrated from Italy as a teenager. We knew that he left the small home where he and his big Italian family lived, sailed across the ocean for weeks, landed at…
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Finding Famiglia – Part Two
Italy at Last — Finalmente Italia Post #2 in a series of how an Italian-American girl discovered her roots in Bari, Italy, the heel of the Italian boot. Please click here to read Finding Famiglia Part One. The first half of The Heritage Trip is spent in the frenzied fabulousness which is Italy in the…
Finding Famiglia — Part One
Behind the Scenes – Il Retroscena As promised in Italian and Me: A History, following is the story of how an American girl, raised in an Italian-American family, found her roots, le sue radici, her treasures, i suoi tesori, in the heel of the Italian boot. Fall 2009. Still very sad from losing my father in…
Prayers & Piazzas 