Friday, September 23, 2016

Raffaela Marie Rizzo Authorspeak, 'From Italy to Norwalk With Love' his story is based on the life of a man named Michelangelo Rizzo, known as Michele to his family and later Mike to everyone else. It reads like a novel and spans eighty years, two continents and several U.S. states. The story opens in 1909 as this thirteen-year-old fatherless boy leaves his hometown of Platania in the mountains of southern Italy on a solo journey to find the grave of the man whose blood runs in his veins, a man he cannot possibly remember. Through flashbacks, we come to understand the circumstances and challenges faced by Mike’s father and millions of others who were part of a thirty-year migration to the Americas in the late 1880s and early part of the Twentieth Century.Co sponsored by the National Organization of Italian American Women. A light lunch will be served Details to follow For more information, please call Cynde Lahey at 203 899 2780 x 15133