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Autobiography

Autobiography

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December 31, 2007

CALITRI OR BUST!

Laura E. Ruberto
Laura E. Ruberto
On the road to Calitri (AV)

From Southern Italy to Southern California, rural Italy's turn as the Golden State.

March 30, 2008

Why I Won’t Vote

Laura E. Ruberto
Political Poster Supporting Italian Immigrants Right to Vote

Italian citizenship laws put me in the same spot as immigrants in Italy today—both of us without the right to vote; whose vote should really count?

April 28, 2008

A Californian Goes East

Laura E. Ruberto
Geroge Bates/NY Times
Sanfrooklyn

A look at Oakland's Italian American neighborhood and what it might tell us about Nutley, New Jersey.

September 20, 2008

The Gate on the “Golden Gate”

Laura E. Ruberto

Lessons in Italian Americana: reading Valenti Angelo’s “Golden Gate” to my five-year old son.

September 20, 2008

The Gate on the “Golden Gate”

Laura E. Ruberto
Valenti Angelo
"Girl with Bird," print by Valenti Angelo, date unknown

Reading Valenti Angelo’s “Golden Gate” to my five-year old son.

November 5, 2008

Blogging Obama

Laura E. Ruberto
Laura E. Ruberto
Drawing of Barack Obama, by this blogger's five year old son

Passing impressions from California, written at midnight on Election Night.

January 15, 2009

The Eternal City of Champions

Laura E. Ruberto
Fabio Ruberto
Constructing a Steelers Logo Sign (2006)

A few comments on the connections between Pittsburgh, Italians, and American Football.

July 4, 2009

Excavating New Futures: The Cairano 7x Experience

Laura E. Ruberto
Cairano 7x Poster
Cairano 7x

An ambitious week-long event in a small village in the province of Avellino crossed many boundaries and suggested many new possibilities.

November 21, 2010

Remembering the Irpinia Earthquake Thirty Years Later

Laura E. Ruberto
Laura E. Ruberto
Cairano (AV), buildings damaged in the 1980 Irpinia Earthquake and never repaired (photo taken June, 2010)

Marking the material culture of one of Southern Italy’s worst natural disasters, the Irpinia Earthquake of November 23, 1980.

March 2, 2011

The Case of the Missing Fasanella Painting

Laura E. Ruberto
Ralph Fasanella
"Welcome Home Boys" (1953)

How I uncovered that the City of Oakland, the Oakland Public Library, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Oakland International Airport have misplaced Ralph Fasanella’s painting, "Welcome Home Boys".

March 20, 2013

Italian American Victrola-Spinning

Laura E. Ruberto
Laura E. Ruberto
Italian American Music Store Labels, Found on 78s and Their Sleeves

From a Massachusetts living room to a California garage—collecting and preserving Italian American soundscapes.