My Motivation Behind the Creation of ItalianHarlem.com- My Father, Albert :-)
Posted: October 26, 2017 Filed under: Angela's picture galleries, But Not Forgotten!, digital photography, East Harlem, East Harlem Notables, Genealogy & DNA, Italian Americans, Italian East Harlem, New York City, NEW YORK ITALIANS, Voices of East Harlem 1 CommentOver 4 years have passed since you left this earthly plane of existence. Gone, but never forgotten. Your presence is very much missed, Daddy.
Riposa in Pace.
In December of 2007, I was 3 years into my “whirling dervish” obsession of gaining every drop of family history knowledge that I could garner. It became self-evident that my ancestral journey had begun, and so I conceived the idea of creating a website to memorialize, and forever “etch” into existence, the information that I would render from this extensive research. I named my website “Pathway to My Ancestry,” and so began the painstaking steps to build the site on the then existing “Live Spaces” platform. A few years into building the site, live spaces was drawing to closure, thereby necessitating me to find another platform to maintain my website. Hence, I found WordPress, and so here I am, and hopefully, will continue to be! In the interim, I had to transfer whatever was transferable to the new website, and decided to change the title of my blog to
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On the Inside Looking Out: My America, a Voice from Italian Harlem’s Past…
Posted: October 26, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentAsked if she liked America, an Italian homeworker replied in 1911: “Not much, not much. In my country, people cook out-of doors, do the wash out-of-doors, tailor out-of-doors, make macaroni out-of-doors. And my people laugh, laugh all the time. In America, is “sopra, sopra!” [up, up, with a gesture of going upstairs]. Many people, one house; work, work all the time. Good money but no good air.”
Source: Elizabeth C. Watson, “Home Work in the Tenements,” Survey, 25 (1910), 772
In hindsight, perhaps, the above statement could have been spoken by the hard-working Italian woman portrayed in this iconic, social journalistic photo. Her name was Mary Mauro. Mary lived in Italian East Harlem, in a 5 story “old-law” walk-up tenement, along with her family in 1911. By some “synchronistic serendipity,” Mary was one of the “homeworkers” chosen by sociologist and photographer, Lewis Wickes Hine, to be portrayed in his photographic…
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CALL FOR VINTAGE PHOTOS! KEEPING MEMORIES ALIVE on ItalianHarlem.com!
Posted: October 26, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 CommentsALTHOUGH THE “HALCYON DAYS” OF EAST HARLEM ARE LONG GONE,PLEASE HELP ME KEEP THE MEMORY ALIVE, OF WHAT LIFE ONCE WAS IN OUR OLD NEIGHBORHOOD!
SEND ME YOUR PHOTOS! I WILL POST THEM ON ITALIANHARLEM.COM! I WILL POST THEM IN MEMORY OF YOUR ANCESTORS…JUST MENTION YOUR FAMILY NAME, AND IT SHALL BE DONE!
EMAIL YOUR PHOTOS TO: italianharlem@gmail.com
THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR MEMORIES!
Angela Bella Puco
SHARE YOUR MEMORIES OF ITALIAN HARLEM!
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