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Online Exclusive! Sicilian Odyssey
by Andrew Bonfiglio
This is the story of when my brothers and I traveled to Sicily to sell the last of the family olive trees...
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Little Italy - Italian Immigrants Influence America
by Janice Therese Mancuso
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of Italians immigrated to America. This mass migration was one of the major reasons that US immigration laws were changed -- first with a literacy test in 1917, next in 1921 to restrict the annual number of immigrants and then in 1924 to restrict immigrants from specific countries.
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Bloomfield, Pittsburgh's Little Italy
By Anthony Grano
Almost every large city in North America has one. In western Pennsylvania there are enclaves of Italians in every community from New Castle in Lawrence County; Monaca, Aliquippa, and Ambridge in Beaver County; Coraopolis, McKees Rocks, Oakland and Morningside in Allegheny County; New Kensington and Vandergrift in Westmorland County; and Canonsburg and Cecil in Washington County. But, in the Pittsburgh district, the official “Little Italy” is located in Bloomfield!
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The beautiful towns of Chianti
by Peter D'Attoma
Only a few regions in Italy can offer such a beautiful and rich panorama as the Chianti wine region. This is the classic Tuscan countryside -- green hills with miles after miles of vineyards producing some of Italy’s best-marketed wines, olive groves, gentle rolling hills, ancient walled villages and panoramic roads like you have never seen before.
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Finding the Way Back to the Garlic Corners (also in Italian)
By Pamela Dorazio Dean
In the Remembering section of the January 2009 issue of LA GAZZETTA ITALIANA, I read the biography of Alturo Pietraroia, a Clevelander with Italian roots who grew up in the Bellaire Road area. The biography mentioned that after immigrating to America, Pietraroia’s parents, Michelangelo and Maria Giuseppa, for a brief period in the 1920s “settled in the small Italian community on W. 130th near Bennington Avenue, known then as Garlic Corners.”
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