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I’ve been to Boston’s Little Italy or the North End many times. Smaller than New York’s Little Italy, it still has some great Italian restaurants and bakeries. The home of Prince Spaghetti and where Sacco and Vanzett were arrested.
Little Italy in Boston goes back to the late 1800’s . Rather than go into a all that history here, I will give you some links to articles and some books on the subject, written by people who write better than I. Also, there are some great Youtube videos that you can watch.
Short History of Boston’s North End – The North End
How the North End Became Boston’s Little Italy – The Boston Globe
North End Italians – North End Boston
Mike’s Pastry. Some of the best cannoli around. And they deliver!
I had the honor and privilege to meet Anthony V. Riccio in 2021. I cold called him to do an interview for my podcast and he was gracious enough to accept. After that we became good friends and worked on publishing some of his taped interviews from the 1970’s and 1980’s. A few months ago he began mentoring me on the book that I am writing about my family. If you do not know about
Peggy Fucillo talks about growing up Italian-American in Boston’s North End in the 1950’s and ’60’s Visit Our Shop Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video
Visit Our Shop Jim Pasto talks about the North End in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Mike’s Cannoli’s And the Italian ladies cooking lunch in grammar school. Also, his visit to Italy. 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
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