Tag: southern Italy
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...
Almadora “Emma” (Iannacito/Cito) Carpanzano/Carpenter
Almadora “Emma” Iannacito was born in Louisville, Colorado in 1905, above the Track Inn tavern. The daughter of Amadore and...
Samuel “Sam” Aiello Carpanzano/Carpenter
The oldest of five children, Samuel “Sam” Aiello Carpanzano was born in Chicago in 1902. Around 1910, his family, including...
A Closer Look: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church
When Italian Americans moved out of the Bottoms area along the South Platte River to north Denver, many began to...
Eugene Piro
During the Italians of Colorado documentation project (2002-2007) I met with numerous families to record the Italian American experience in...
Denver Pressman Irvin Comito
Of interest to me (among many other things) is Colorado’s rich history in relation to the printing industry. Last month...