Paesano: The Struggle to Survive in Ambridge
Posted by Frank Serene on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Paesano: The Struggle to Survive in Ambridge For nearly three-quarters of a century, Lucy Derochis, my grandmother, has struggled successfully to preserve and convey her Italian heritage while living in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Her cultivation of familial closeness was rewarded when family members gathered to celebrate her eighty-ninth birthday on March 13, 1980. The durability of the tight and close structure of an Italian-American...read more