| Four generations of Italian Americans meld cultures in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains beginning in 1891 when the author’s maternal great-grandfather Giuseppe Policastroemigrates from the Salerno region to north central Pennsylvania and finds work on the legendary logging railroad, The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway.” Four years later he has saved enough money to send for his wife Vittoria and his four young children. The author’s maternal grandmother, Anna, is born in 1896 to… |
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