The story of Italians in Arkansas started in Greenwich Village, New York. Following il Risorgimento, the unification of Italy, southern Italians fled poverty in the Mezzogiorno emigrating to seek better opportunities in New York. The surge of peasant Italians often fell prey to exploitation. In 1890, Father Pietro Bandini left Italy and founded the St.…
Appointment with ISIL, an Anthony Provati Thriller A simple flirtation will become a hair-raising race against death, secret agendas, black market deals and a possible showdown with a militant terrorist group in a quest to prevent the death and destruction of millions. Maybe next time Anthony Provati will keep his sexual appetite under control or…
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Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal opened transportation for immigrants to the U.S. Midwest. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wisconsin expanded from a frontier territory into a fully functioning state (1848) mainly due to migration and immigration, the majority arriving from northern Europe and Germany, with a smaller number coming from southern…
In the early 1700s, Neapolitan born, Henri de (Enrico) Tonti, a colleague of Robert de la Salle, explored Louisiana and settled in the New France colony. A leader in the community, North Tonti Street in New Orleans honors him and is located just south of Lake Pontchartrain. After the Civil War, planters in southern states…
Like Christopher Columbus, Italians were often in the employ of the Spanish court during the era of discovery. On Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s 1540-42 epic expedition from Mexico to Kansas, later termed the search for the “Seven Cities of Gold,” his soldiers included men named Loro, Napolitano, and Romano. Neapolitan, Henri di Tonti, was an…
After gold was discovered in 1849, the first Italian immigrants left northern Italy, and settled in the Mother Lode near Sacramento. Domenico Ghirardelli was a Genoa confectioner’s apprentice. He arrived in California during the Gold Rush and opened a general store for miners. Eventually, his chocolate making operations occupied what is now Ghirardelli Square. Andrea…
The Minnesota Iron Range, Vermilion, Mesabi, and Cuyuna mines, produced the majority of the iron ore in the United States. from 1900 to 1980. By 1920, the Iron Range exceeded a hundred thousand people, with immigrants half the population and 85% of the mining workforce. The largest group of immigrants were Finnish (25%), then Croats,…
Austin, Texas
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Malvern Books Novel Night
7:00 PM.
613 West 29th Street.
Manhattan, New York
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Italian American Museum
6:30 PM
155 Mulberry Street
Manhattan, New York
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Cornelia Street Café
5:45 PM
29 Cornelia St.
