Giuseppa Mangani (Rapisarda) was born on 11 February, 1936 in Ramacca, Catania, Italy. She died in her husband Lucio’s arms on 20 September, 2020 in Sunshine, Victoria, Australia. Due to the lockdown restrictions enforced by the Victorian government at the time...
Holy shit this has been a year and we’re not even done with March yet. We are on Day 10 of self-mandated quarantine. Arkansas still hasn’t issued any stay at home orders but since we don’t have any practical reason to be out and about we decided to...
I had my naturalization interview at Fort Smith, AR on November 14, 2019! 💃🏻 It took all of 15 minutes and I was such a nervous wreck that I could barely show my happiness when the officer said that I was successful. We started with him making me swear an oath to tell...
Over the past year I have been writing a book about the Sulfaro family. A large section is dedicated to Paolo Sulfaro, my great-grandfather, who traveled back-and-forth between Sicily and West Virginia to work in the coal mines before his death in WW1. I have pieced...
Our last full day in China was mostly spent on a train. We finally used a DiDi (Chinese Uber but way better) to take us from our Airbnb to Shanghai Huangpu Train Station. It took us about 30 min to figure out that at this station you need to go through passport and...
