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 |