Michele “Michael” LaGuardia
The son of Vincenzo and Rosa (Sileo) LaGuardia, Michele “Michael” LaGuardia was born in Potenza, Italy in 1873. At the age...
Oreste Francis Nigro
A native of Grimaldi, Italy, Oreste Francis Nigro came to America in 1896 at the age of fifteen. It is unclear...
Generosity, Tradition and Strength—The Persichetti Family
The legacy of rule by foreign nations after the fall of the Roman Empire greatly contributed to the belief of people...
Giacomo and Angelina Toller
Giacomo Toller was born in Pergine, Austria, today known as Pergine Valsugana, a town in the northern Italian province of...
A Unique Stove, Many Questions, Many Stories
In 1987, Andrew Tamburelli of Aguilar, Colorado donated a cast iron stove to History Colorado. According to the donation paperwork the...
Left on the Field: Colorado’s Semi-Pro and Amateur Baseball Teams
Baseball is timeless in its ability to unify players, fans, and communities. Stepping onto the field transforms ballplayers into comrades,...
Trinidad’s Gerardi Mercantile
Born in 1845 in Viggiano, Italy—a town in the southern Italian province of Potenza—Pascal Gerardi came to the U.S. in...
A Beginning, 1905 and Today
My grandmother Almadora, or as most people knew her “Emma”, was born on this day in 1905. She died on...
Bird of Passage: Savino Beiletti
Like migrant workers today Italian “birds of passage” left their homes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries to find...
A Unique Opportunity: Touring the Denver Post Printing Plant
People that know me well understand my deep appreciation of the working-class; laborers from all walks of life, proud of...
A Sense of Place: Denver’s Historic Stockyards
Some places possess power. Power to evoke memories of movement, tradition, hard work, lifeways and the relationship of humans, animals and...