List of the Italian Expressions and Traditions Mentioned in the interview:
buonuscita |
liquidation |
morra |
Italian hand game |
cappella |
mausoleum |
sagna |
lasagna |
tortellini |
meat stuffed pasta |
Lasciatemi cantare, con la chitarra in mano, lasciatemi cantare. Sono un italiano. tutto qua |
Refrain of Italian song by Toto Cutugno: “Let me sing with my guitar in my hand, allow me to sing. I am an Italian.” That’s all. |
List of the Italian Expressions and Traditions Mentioned in the interview:
buonuscita |
liquidation |
morra |
Italian hand game |
cappella |
mausoleum |
sagna |
lasagna |
tortellini |
meat stuffed pasta |
Lasciatemi cantare, con la chitarra in mano, lasciatemi cantare. Sono un italiano. tutto qua |
Refrain of Italian song by Toto Cutugno: “Let me sing with my guitar in my hand, allow me to sing. I am an Italian.” That’s all. |
TIMING |
TOPIC OF DISCUSSION |
00:01 - 2:00 |
.Biographical information |
2:44 - 5:00 |
Childhood: working on the farm and quitting school |
5:00 - 7:00 |
Dreams of coming to America |
7:40 - 10:00 |
Memories of working construction and starting a landscaping business in New York. |
10:00 - 12:30 |
Accident on the job and selling the business |
12:36 - 13:30 |
Buying property in New York |
13:35 - 14:40 |
Remembering friends from Abruzzo who immigrated to Yonkers and the surrounding areas |
14:40 - 15:40 |
Enjoying an Italian lifestyle in America: playing morra, gathering on the weekends |
15:50 - 16:50 |
Family vacations with relatives in Italy |
17:00 - 22:00 |
Soured relationships with siblings in Italy over money and property |
22:00 - 23:00 |
Process of becoming an American citizen and change in sense of identity. |
23:00 - 23:45 |
Visiting Avezzano as an American citizen |
23:50 - 26:30 |
Trip to Italy in 2019 as an addio and only remaining wish to move his parents and sister to a different cemetery plot. |
26:30 - 28:00 |
50 anniversary of coming to the US and discussion of favorite Italian things: food, song, drink. |
28:00 - 28:40 |
The advantages and opportunities of being in America |
28:40 |
Thank you and closing |
List of the Italian Expressions and Traditions Mentioned in the interview:
Paesano (countryman)
Destino (destiny)
Cartelle (word indicating a mix of different powders used to produce “fake wine”)
Sega, sega (original nursery rhyme) |
Ann’s version |
Sega, sega mastu Ciccio, na panèlla e na sacìccia; ‘a panèlla ce ‘a mangiàmmo e ‘a sacìccia ce ‘a stipàmmo; ce ‘a stipàmmo pe' Natale, quanno vènene 'e zampugnàre. E zampugnàre nun vènene cchiù a saciccia t'à mangi tu. |
Sega, sega mastu Ciccio, |
List of the Italian Expressions and Traditions Mentioned in the interview:
Paesano (countryman)
Destino (destiny)
Cartelle (word indicating a mix of different powders used to produce “fake wine”)
Sega, sega (original nursery rhyme) |
Ann’s version |
Sega, sega mastu Ciccio, na panèlla e na sacìccia; ‘a panèlla ce ‘a mangiàmmo e ‘a sacìccia ce ‘a stipàmmo; ce ‘a stipàmmo pe' Natale, quanno vènene 'e zampugnàre. E zampugnàre nun vènene cchiù a saciccia t'à mangi tu. |
Sega, sega mastu Ciccio, |
TIMING |
TOPIC OF DISCUSSION |
00:01 - 00:45 |
AC’s date and place of birth and list of schools attended. |
00:46 - 01:23 |
AC’s job at Columbia University. |
01:24 - 02:00 |
AC’s father name and place of birth. Age when he came to America. |
02:01 - 03:03 |
America as a “land of opportunity”. AC’s father decision to move to America. |
03:04 - 03:20 |
Paesanos in America. |
03:21 - 03:44 |
Location of AC’s father in America |
03:45 - 04:20 |
How AC’s parents got married. |
04:21 - 04:37 |
Age of AC’s parents when they got married. |
04:38 - 04:53 |
Reason of the marriage. |
04:54 - 05:40 |
AC’s father wine production. The importance of a wine cellar to store bottles. |
05:41 - 06:52 |
AC’s memories and anecdote about her father’s wine. |
06:53 - 06:56 |
AC’s health conditions. |
06:57 - 07:21 |
AC’s father visiting Ann in Florida. Impressions and reason to refuse to move there. |
07:22 - 07:31 |
Reason why AC moved to Florida. |
07:32 - 08:07 |
Story and year of moving to Florida. |
08:08 - 10:43 |
AC’s story of her job in Florida and how she knew her future husband. |
10:44 - 11:10 |
Il Destino, the Fate. |
11:11 - 12:43 |
The story of her parents; her mother was an orphan. |
12:44 - 13.56 |
Anecdote about AC’s mother going to the convent. |
13:57 - 15:05 |
AC’s mother had a good education and learned how to embroider. |
15:06 - 15:28 |
Italian as the only language spoken within her family. |
15:29 - 16:02 |
“Sega sega”, an Italian lullaby. |
16:03 - 17:03 |
AC’s visit to the convent. Meeting Suor Virginia. |