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I plan on covering alot of ground on this blog - from Italian history, traditions, food and wine, travel stories, Italian-American heritage, to whatever happens to be on my mind.
I plan on covering alot of ground on this blog - from Italian history, traditions, food and wine, travel stories, Italian-American heritage, to whatever happens to be on my mind.
Down The Fort Documentary Trailer
Tags fishing, fort, gloucester, sicily
Well it's St. Peter's Fiesta time here in Gloucester and this year I am participating in a project to document my town's "little Italy" - known as The Fort.
Although most of Gloucester's Italian-American community has moved on, The Fort is still the heart and soul, the place where our families got a foothold in America.
Change is happening across the country and in our tired old fishing town and so Ethnographer Sal Zerilli and his team are preparing to document the sights, sounds, smells and memories of our little enclave: The Fort.
Here are videos of some of the people I admire most - that helped shape the person I have become. Enjoy:
These are my parent's best friends, they are still known as the 'fort gang' and are like my older brothers and sisters -getting me in small trouble but keeping me out of big trouble.
Buzzy Bertolino was like the neighborhood grandpa and his bakery next door to my grandma Demetri's was the kitchen cupboard. After all these years he still looks the same...
For more stories and information on the project visit: Down The Fort
Although most of Gloucester's Italian-American community has moved on, The Fort is still the heart and soul, the place where our families got a foothold in America.
Change is happening across the country and in our tired old fishing town and so Ethnographer Sal Zerilli and his team are preparing to document the sights, sounds, smells and memories of our little enclave: The Fort.
Here are videos of some of the people I admire most - that helped shape the person I have become. Enjoy:
These are my parent's best friends, they are still known as the 'fort gang' and are like my older brothers and sisters -getting me in small trouble but keeping me out of big trouble.
Buzzy Bertolino was like the neighborhood grandpa and his bakery next door to my grandma Demetri's was the kitchen cupboard. After all these years he still looks the same...
For more stories and information on the project visit: Down The Fort
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