Happy Italian American Heritage Day! I am Italian American. There are myriad definitions and interpretations of what that means. For me, it means that I am American mixed with the culture that my grandparents brought from Sicily mixed with the sensibilities that my father took on as he grew up with two cultures in Brooklyn…
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Thank You Michelina
Sicily experienced mass emigration from the late 19th century into the early-20th century. To give you perspective, in 1880, 884 people from Sicily were documented as emigrants to other countries, while in 1906 that number was 127,603 (according to Sandra Benjamin’s book “Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History”). The year that saw the largest…
1930s Keyhole on the door leading to my cousins’ back garden. My great uncle Filippo built this house using the money he saved when he worked in America. #sicily #sicily_travel #sicilia #sicily_tourism #italy #ig_sicily #italia #bagheria # keyhole #immigration #italian-american #bucodellaserratura #immigrant