Italian Voices

Making Minnesota Our Home

• Author(s): Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich,
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
• Pages: 315
• ISBN_10: 0873515811
  ISBN_13: 9780873515818
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , History / General , History / Historiography , History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / European American Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... A boardinghouse keeper finds her kitchen in a mess after Saturday-night revelry and refuses to cook on Sunday. An iron miner pries frozen ore from a car in 40-below temperatures. A grocer makes sausage, brews wine, and forages for mushrooms and dandelion greens. In Italian Voices, Minnesota's Italian Americans share rich stories of everyday life in communities in the Iron Range, Duluth, and the Twin Cities between 1900 and 1960. Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich, a native of the Iron Range, had unequaled access to the state's immigrant generation during the twenty years she spent documenting the lives of these Minnesotans, in their own words.