Barbara Corso shares sweet childhood memories, including her father bringing holy water home from church on Holy Saturday. She also recounts a memorable trip to Manhattan as a teenager. These stories offer a charming glimpse into her past, with a fun comment about a vestibule being taken over. Get vidIQ to grow your channel faster! 🚀 https://vidiq.com/Italianroots
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Researching Piano Di Sorrento to Brooklyn NY
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Italian American Stories — “Tales of a Brooklyn Grocer’s Son”
Peter Franzese talks about his grandfather growing up in the Italian-American enclave of Williamsburg Brooklyn in the 1930’s and 1940’s and how he connected with him. We also talk about his first book “Nettie — Tales of a Brooklyn Nana”. You don’t have to be from Brooklyn or NYC to relate to the fun stories. Born in Flushing, New York and raised in Richmond Hill and Deer Park, Peter M. Franzese is a fourth generation
Italian-American Stories — Brooklyn NY — The Third Attic
Vincent Manago reminisces on a boyhood spent in 1950s and 1960s Brooklyn, New York with his Italian-American family. Readers will delight in hearing of Vincent’s search for the elusive “Third Attic,” a secret room reportedly hidden within the yawning reaches of the attics of the local church that was built in part by Vincent’s grandfather during the dawn of the twentieth century. Learn of the young Jewish couple who help their Italian neighbors in a
Growing Up Italian in Queens NYC
Visit Our Shop Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens NYC. His father and grandparents immigrated to New York from Naples. He and his wife Jane now live in Texas. As a former 3M International Executive Vice President, Joe experienced the global cultures and locations he writes about. Joe’s stories have appeared in more than one hundred magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, and Shenandoah. His novel, Birds of Passage, An
Italian American Stories – Joining the Teamsters
Click here to join Italian Genealogy Group on Facebook Around this time in 1971 I was looking for work and I got a call one Friday evening from my cousin Frank Nicoletti ( fifty years ago… yikes ). Frank was one of the manager’s at the Pepsi plant on Avenue D in Brooklyn NY and told me that there was an opening. “That’s great!” I said, “what do I need to do?” Frank said, “go
Joe Profaci aka Charlie Chan — Italian American Stories
Aunt Mary in the 1940’s Aunt Mary I think almost every Italian family has an Aunt Mary. She was always the life of the party and the first to start singing a chorus of “Che La Luna” or “Mama” when eating stopped and the fun began. She always had something to fun to say and everyone was “frigoli” and the girl cousins were “trampolines” when they dressed, how teens dressed in the 1960’s. Not to
