Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Italian heritage

How Dino Crocetti of Steubenville became pop singer Dean Martin

We know him as Dean Martin, world famous crooner. But he was born Dino Paul Crocetti, in Steubenville, OH, the son of Italian immigrants.

Thoney Pietro established a new record which stands to this day – he laid single handed a section of street 30 ft wide, 350 ft long–in 8 hrs!

The game of morra may appear to be a convoluted, grownup version of rock, paper, scissor that we’ve all seen kids play.

My parents were Italian immigrants. They settled in WV, where my father came over at the age of seventeen, where he was a bookkeeper.

Thousands of families, most Eastern European immigrants, streamed into the shadows of Black Mountain, KY between the World Wars to mine coal.

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