Visit Our Shop Bob speaks with Becky Clemente about her family roots including a very interesting story about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Here is the link to the Castiglione and Carovilli Research Group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1659888864331809   Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video

Visit Our Shop Bob talks to Jeffrey Anzevino about his roots in Italy and the family’s business in Hoboken NJ. Be sure to check out Jeffery’s site for some excellent calendars. https://www.zazzle.com/store/tugspotting Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video “Photographs provided courtesy of Jeffrey Anzevino.”

Visit Our Shop Bob talks to Mary Patterson about her Sicilian roots.  Interesting story about 6 sisters who’s mom was born in America and returned to Sicily only to come back years later with her husband and family.  Mary is the author of  After Love: The Life of Anna Gennusa  Far from her Sicilian homeland, Anna discovers an inner strength she never realized she possessed. Anna is determined to make this new life in a strange new world a success. From sleeping on her friends’ Angie and Angelo’s floor, working in a garment factory, to running a bustling business in a brownstone mansion, Anna faces her future with courage. She endures any hardship to ensure her daughters’ lives are happy and secure. Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video

Visit Our Shop Bob talks with Anthony about his books that chronicle the stories of Italian Immigrants in New England. Anthony Riccio grew up in an old ethnic neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, where the constant hum of the local American Steel and Wire mill could be heard in the well-tended backyards of Italian immigrants. He returned to the ancestral villages of his grandparents while pursuing an M.A. from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy and photgraphed daily life in the rural villages of the south. Anthony later became the director of the North End Senior Citizen Center in Boston, where he conducted oral-history interviews and photgraphed elderly Italian Americans of the North End neighborhood, and wrote his first publication: “Boston’s North End: Images and Recollections of an Italian-American Neighborhood” Anthony lives in Westbrook, Connecticut. http://www.anthonyriccio.com/ Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video

Visit Our Shop Carmine Vittoria, retired professor at Northeastern University in Boston, born in Avella in 1940 and emigrated to the United States at the age of 11, retraces the stages of his childhood in his native land during the bitter times of the Second World War. The merit of this autobiographical writing is the continuous bounce between the narrator’s private facts and well-known national and international historical events of the 1940s. The narrator is constantly seeking clarification to focus on the blurred memories of a child who grew up without his father, a young corporal who died during a bombing in Libya. The little protagonist, known to everyone as Capitaniello, grows up with his mother in a community of shepherds and his paternal grandfather, who lives in the centre of the village and becomes almost a mythical figure. The memories of his childhood are related to well-known historical facts, and all this required the author years of study and research. And, as if the adult self felt a strong need to reconnect to its past, trying to put together the pieces of a complex puzzle. The book succeeds in linking private facts to the flow of the historical narrative of war, demonstrating how history, besides being decided by great strategists, is accomplished by everyone, even the most humble who live in the most remote areas of a country. These testimonies from below enrich the narrative by widening its perspective. The text is well balanced in order to untangle the tangle of a complex historical period, not only Italian but world-wide. The narrator does not save anyone but the last of the population who somehow reacted by trying not to succumb to the events. “We make do to survive”, is the incipit of the book, the true essence of the whole narrative. Italian Marketplace LLC Online tee shirts, hoodies and more for Italians Bitter Chicory To Sweet Espresso Carmine Vittoria, retraces the stages of his childhood in his Naple during the bitter times of WWII Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=30519446) Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video picture of Amalfi, as seen from Ravello. This is the route that Uncle joe used to go to my Town of Avella. The German army circled around below in Amalfi to get to Naples via Sorrento peninsula.