Tag: saloon

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...

/ April 16, 2024

Eugene Piro

During the Italians of Colorado documentation project (2002-2007) I met with numerous families to record the Italian American experience in...

/ July 20, 2018

James Capillupo and “The Babe!”

Sportswriter Tommy Holmes once said of Babe Ruth “I stopped talking about the Babe for the simple reason that I...

/ May 16, 2018