by Mauro Battocchi

After a successful California premier and screenings in New York City, Finding the Motherlode — thedocumentary about the history of Italians in California by Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien, co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs — has been invited back to California for a tour of eight screenings around the state. If you haven't had a chance to see this engrossing documentary, now is your chance.

The Italian Immigration experience was different in California as compared to the East Coast of the United States and marked by economic success and social ascension. The natural ambition of Italians — mainly from Genoa and Liguria, Lucca and Tuscany and later on Sicily — may have begun as gold rushers, but pragmatically they began to develop the industries that they already knew: farming, commerce, fishing and winemaking.

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Fonte: San Francisco, Italy