Ties of Affection: Family Narratives in the History of Italian Migration

AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN, Giuseppe Verrico left the village of his birth, Santi Cosma e Damiano for America. He had been called to the United States by a half-brother living in Cortland, a small town in central New York. In that same year, 1921, Donato Vecchio emigrated from Castle-forte, a neighboring village of Santi Cosma e Damiano, bound for the same American destination. Donato had been called by his sister Angiolina, who had immigrated to Cortland in 1915, to join another emigrant from Castle-forte, her future husband.