Category: Community Stories
Michele “Michael” LaGuardia
The son of Vincenzo and Rosa (Sileo) LaGuardia, Michele “Michael” LaGuardia was born in Potenza, Italy in 1873. At the age...
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...
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...