Ky. Voices: Kentucky culture rooted in opportunities for immigrants

Jul 29, 2013 1854

By Kiran Bhatraju


In the late 1920s, an Italian immigrant with a funny last name arrived in the heart of Appalachia to join the thousands of Scots-Irish who found good wages in the coalfields.

He could have moved to New York or Chicago, but he instead came to Perry County to work as a stonemason.

His arrival was not uncommon. Appalachian and American history is defined by immigrants searching for liberty and prosperity. And even though this particular Italian left his home to emigrate to a land where they spoke a foreign language, he never turned back. The mountains became his new home.

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