Life in Southern Italy at the Turn of the Century -- Leaving Italy for the Promise of America -- The Journey to Boston -- A New Life in the North End -- Becoming an American Citizen -- The Italian Mother -- The Italian Father -- The Oral Tradition: Family Stories, Dialects, Folktales, and Prayers -- Italy and the North End in World War I -- Garlic, Camphor, and Anisette: The Spanish Flu Pandemic in the North End -- The Molasses Explosion -- Italian American Street Life -- Going to School -- Justice Denied: Sacco and Vanzetti -- The Depression in the North End -- Seamstresses and Factory Workers: Italian American Women at Work -- Making It in the North End: Italian American Men at Work -- Making Wine, Drinking Wine -- Life in the Tenements -- Sicilian Fishermen in the North End -- Societies, Feasts, and Patron Saints -- Christmas in the North End -- Irish and Italians -- Refugees in the North End: West Enders Tell Their Stories -- Local Politics -- The Gangster Stereotype: On the Screen and Real Life -- Life in a Cold-Water Flat -- The Changing North End -- The Old Waterfront and the New Boston -- Poor Tenant, Poor Landlord -- Meglio Pane e Cipolla, e Sola -- Epilogue: The North End Today / James Pasto
Summary
"A time capsule of a classic Italian American neighborhood, told in the voices of its inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher
