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The Watts Towers in Southern Italy: Connecting California with Irpinia

(20 07 2014) Laura E. Ruberto

Looking for the future of Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers in the small town of Serino, in the province of Avellino.

Mobsters in Sin City

(13 03 2014) Laura E. Ruberto

The Las Vegas Mob Museum doesn’t know what to do with all those Italian American gangsters everyone loves to talk about so much.

An Italian Topography within a California Cemetery

(09 01 2013) Laura E. Ruberto

On the ethnicity of tombstones.

A moribund italianità.

(11 12 2012) Joseph Sciorra

Some thoughts on presepi, creativity, and death.

The “Naive Wooden Sculptures” of Theodore Santoro

(08 07 2012) Laura E. Ruberto

An Italian American self-taught artist from Oakland, California, adds yet another chapter in the story of Italian Americans and material culture.

Remembering the Irpinia Earthquake Thirty Years Later

(21 11 2010) Laura E. Ruberto

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

My Italian American Museum

(21 06 2010) Joseph Sciorra

Entering into a conversation with objects.

Gepetto (sic), Fairyland, and Oakland’s Lost Italian Americans

(03 05 2008) Laura E. Ruberto

Geppetto's been building Pinocchio for over 40 years in Oakland's Fairyland.

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