Damn Mattatuck Museum, you are shooting through my heart with one of your latest exhibits. I am of Italian-American descent. My great-grandmother and great grandfather were both born in Avellino, Italy and immigrated to Waterbury, Connecticut around 1900.

There's a new exhibit - The Immigrant Suitcase Project: Italians of Waterbury on view in the History Gallery of Waterbury's Mattatuck Museum that I think is a brilliant, beautiful idea because it hits so close to home, for a lot of us.