Ben Lariccia

Ben Lariccia, contributing writer, Youngstown, Ohio

From Shepherds to Ohio Steelworkers

April 2014
A bronze plaque at the foot of the Statue of Liberty features Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "New Colossus," with its often quoted, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore."...


St. Rocco's, Youngstown

January 2014
Youngstown, Ohio, never developed a centralized little Italy. Instead, the city's mostly southern Italian settlers chose to live near the foundries, rail yards, and steel mills where Germans, Spaniards, Welsh, Slavs, Irish, African American, and...


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