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In one of our most moving You Are There exhibits to date, talk to Italian prisoners of war in the chapel they built at Camp Atterbury – their home away from home. In 1943, approximately 3,000 Italian POWs were held at Atterbury during World War II. That it held prisoners of war is surprising to many, but the legacy of this time period lives on as p...

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Mother’s Day and Father’s Day have come and gone, and many friends and family members posted photos honoring their parents, as did I. As a genealogist, I can tell from the photos people posted just how well they have preserved their photo collections. Some people have 20 clear sharp images of themselves with their father or mother over a range of y...

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Il progetto intende rivalutare il territorio e promuovere un’azione di promozione internazionale della propria offerta formativa, linguistica e culturale rivolta ai giovani discendenti di umbri emigrati e residenti all'estero, che permetta di mantenere e ricreare i legami con la propria terra d’origine, offrendo un’opportunità per un loro eventuale...

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Due grandi iniziative di concerto tra i Comuni di Castelluccio Inferiore e Ruvo del Monte ED IL Museo dell'Emigrazione Lucana, per guardare dentro le storie di emigrazione attraverso la valorizzazione di nuovi personaggi da segnalare al Museo. La volontà di parlare di emigrazione è pari a quella di capire cosa c'è dietro i nuovi flussi immigratori...

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Da New York alla Sicilia: la scrittrice italo-americana Annie Rachele Lanzilotto sta ripercorrendo, nella nostra regione, gran parte dei luoghi di nascita delle 24 emigrate siciliane che persero la vita nel rogo della fabbrica Triangle il 25 marzo 1911 a New York; quando le fiamme si portarono via sogni e speranze di queste donne coraggiose che ave...

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San Francisco has always been an important location for the Italian emigration. History is mixed with innovation, and both tell the story of how Italian hard work and creativity are rewarded by the entrepreneurial spirit that finds a perfect welcome in San Francisco and its surroundings. Consul Lorenzo Ortona heads the Italian Consulate General in...

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After more than a year of preparation, the Merced County Courthouse Museum opened the “Grazie America! From Italy to Merced County” exhibit on March 16, 2017. The exhibit collected personal stories from more than 130 contributors. As this successful exhibit came to an end on August 6, the process of documenting and preserving their stories continue...

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The war was getting really heavy, and a man in an officer’s uniform came to our door. He said, “I have some papers here, and I want you to read these. You have to leave your home and go to Oklahoma, and you’re going to go into a concentration camp. We’re going to take all the people who live near the waterfront because you’re too dangerous.” I said...

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Creating a canal to go around river rapids was no easy feat in the early days of the Industrial Revolution and at times it could get ugly, as work at Sewalls Falls may have shown. On Aug. 16, 1892, the Concord Evening Monitor ran a story about the digging of the canal, which extends a quarter-mile around the rapids, described the work being done by...

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It was more than 60 years ago — March 27, 1956 — and my family was waiting at the Port of Palermo in Sicily to board the SS Queen Fredericka. We were emigrating to America. An official-looking man at the gate checked our papers — first those of my mother, then those of us five kids. He probably checked my papers last, since I had been crying nonsto...

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