Watts Towers
Watts Towers
Looking for the future of Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers in the small town of Serino, in the province of Avellino.
Children’s literature, the Watts Towers, and Italian-Californian celebrations of Saint Joseph’s Day.
In recognition of co-blogger, Laura Ruberto, who intelligently expounds on West Coast iterations of Italian America, I offer my touristic encounter with things Italian in the...
Finding Romano Gabriel’s Wooden Sculpture Garden along the Italy-California border.
Looking at the undercurrents of Italian migrant identity in Niki de Sainte Phalle’s Giardino dei Tarocchi.
A little diddy about California’s role in the Italian American invention of an ice-resurfacing machine.
A Brief Visit to California’s Subterranean Marvel, Baldassare Forestiere’s “Underground Gardens.”
During the 1960s and 1970s, 40,000 people visited Waterbury, CT annually to pray at Holy Land USA, a Catholic theme park created by John Greco. Now it lies in ruins.
Driving for hours takes us to three California Italian American vernacular sites -- from urban LA to rural NorCal with a stop along the freeway in the Central Valley.