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.
If you had the means to change your destiny, would you do it? Especially if it meant committing acts that are, let’s just say, not so legal? Destiny, fortune, and doing the “right thing” are key themes in Joe Giordano’s novel, Birds of Passage. The book tells the interwoven stories of characters like Azzura Medina,…
This riveting debut novel by Giordano charts the passage of two young Italian men to early twentieth century New York, as they strive to make their mark in the New World. Leonardo has a strong sense of rectitude, and respect for his family, yet a life in Naples, for him, signals a life wasted. Hugging…
