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Consulate of Italy in
Detroit Calendar of
Events in Ohio
Western Reserve Historical
Society, Cleveland
A weekend with USA Today
bestselling
author,
Pamela
Schoenewaldt
Two
exclusive
events
presented
in
partnership
with Consolato d’Italia Detroit, NOIA Foundation and CWRU
- The Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
Friday, June 13, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Writing About Family – A Workshop
Pamela Schoenewaldt uses fun, interactive prompts and exercises to explore
new ways of thinking about family history. Revisit family scenes from fresh
perspectives and generate ideas for future exploration. Bring something to
write with and on, a few family pictures and the willingness to be astonished.
Admission: $25. Online registration is available at www.wrhs.org.
Sunday, June 15, 2014 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Swimming in the Moon – A novel
Spend the afternoon in the beautifully restored Hay-McKinney
Garden for an exclusive reading and discussion of Pamela
Schoenewaldt’s newly released historical novel, Swimming in the Moon.
Italy, 1905. Fourteen-year-old Lucia and her young mother, Teresa, are servants
in a magnificent villa on the Bay of Naples, where Teresa soothes their unhappy
mistress with song. But volatile tempers force them to flee, exchanging their
warm, gilded cage for the cold winds off Lake Erie and Cleveland's restless
immigrant quarters. With a voice as soaring and as varied as her moods, Teresa
transforms herself into the Naples Nightingale on the vaudeville circuit. Clever
and hardworking, Lucia blossoms in school until her mother's demons return,
fracturing Lucia's dreams. Yet Lucia is not alone in her struggle for a better life.
All around her, friends and neighbors, new Americans, are demanding decent
wages and working conditions. Lucia joins their battle, confronting risks and
opportunities that transform her and her world in ways she never imagined.
The
WRHS
Italian-American
Collection
was
used
extensively
to create the story, which touches on immigration, vaudeville,
mental illness and the 1911 Cleveland