Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoirvolume 2

ISBN-13: 9781933227566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 216 str.

Joseph A. Conforti

Opis

This gripping memoir is both a personal story and a portrait of a distinctive New England place--Fall River, Massachusetts, once the cotton cloth capital of America. Growing up, Joseph Conforti's world was defined by rolling hills, granite mills, and forests of triple-deckers. Conforti, whose mother was Portuguese and whose father was Italian, recounts how he negotiated those identities in a city where ethnic heritage mattered. Paralleling his own account, Conforti shares the story of his family, three generations of Portuguese and Italians who made their way in this once-mighty textile city.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Spindle City
• Family Migrations
• Street and Tenement
• “Up the Flint”
• Faith
• Aspirations
• Native Ground, Again
• Leaving
• Epilogue
• A Note on Sources
• Notes