Tom Caldarera, Jr. and his son Joe, both restaurateurs in Fort Smith, will share their Italian family history Sunday at the Clayton House, 514 N. Sixth St.

Like towns throughout the American South, Fort Smith received waves of immigrants leaving crowded cities of the east in the decades following the Civil War. Immigration peaked as railroads crisscrossed the country in the late 1800s. Salvatore Caldarera arrived in the U.S. from the southern Italy island of Sicily in 1882. 

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