Ray Mascetti use to wake up in his room inside the attic of his family's home in Torrington to the sound of his father's voice. Eager to wake up him up so he could get some work done, his father would say, in Italian, "He who sleeps, catches no fish!"

Mascetti, 75, said that's one of the few Italian phrases he knows even though he doesn't speak Italian. Despite this, the first-generation Italian-American and Torrington native said he understands it pretty well. He said his father came from Northern Italy when he immigrated to the United States at the turn of the century.

He is one of thousands of Italian-American residents who continue to call Torrington home. In fact, the presence of Italian-American residents in Torrington is mostly unchanged in the past 10 years, with the overall total population of people of Italian descent calling northwest Connecticut's largest city home hovering at about 25 percent of the population.

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Source: http://www.registercitizen.com/