Italian Voices: Making Minnesota Our Home

by Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich, FlorenceMae Waldron (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873516747
Publisher:	Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date:	08/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Mary Ellen Mancina Batinich (1923-1996), a high school teacher and principal in Chicago, was active in Italian American organizations and a tireless oral historian.
FlorenceMae Waldron is a visiting research fellow at the University of Minnesota.