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# 85 NOVEMBER 21 , 2016
# 85 November 21 2016
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THE INTERVIEW:
Lynn Marie Alexander
A Little Italy well alive and kicking, the Hill in St.Louis
By Umberto Mucci
St. Louis hosted for 30 years Rita Levi
Montalcini, who worked here at the
science that gave her the Nobel Prize.
But this is not the only Italian trace in the
city of the Show Me State. When you get
to Marconi Avenue, in The Hill, St. Louis’
Little Italy, you start to understand that
not every Italian neighbourhood in America has disappeared or reduced to just a
few blocks. The Hill is pretty big, very Italian, clean and with a lot of Italian flags.
Being here is a very good sensation, for
We the Italians who love the Italian Americans and admire their passion for Italy.
Lynn Marie Alexander is one of them
Lynn Marie, what’s the story of the Italian
emigration to St. Louis?
$ 27, 405 pages
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When they came over in the late 1890s,
the Italian immigrants came here for
work, because at that time there was a situation of instability in Italy, especially in
the north. Here they worked particularly
in clay mines, some also in coal mines,
but the majority in clay mines because
at that time there were here 6 different
foundries of brick making. They wanted
to make a decent living here; some men
brought their family from Italy, others
met the girl of their dreams here.
Most of the Italian settlers came here
from the Italian region Lombardy, from
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