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Stray · ‎04-20-2013

@NYwoman - my husband was born in NYC in an Italian neighborhood and his childhood was very similar to your experience. His paternal grandparents were from Calabria, in Acri & his maternal grands were from Campobasso in southern Italy.

I grew up in NJ in an Italian/Irish neighborhood & one of my fondest memories was smelling Italian sauce on Sunday morning. My mother was not a great cook so our neighbors always sent sauce & meatballs because they knew I loved Italian food & later on taught me to cook Italian.

Speaking of hard times, I just saw the film “Cabrini” & a lot of the film was about the difficulties early Italian immigrants faced in NY. I went as a favor to my husband not expecting a good movie but it turned out to be good.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@Stray,

How neat is that?!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

NYwoman · ‎03-09-2010

@Stray wrote:
@NYwoman- my husband was born in NYC in an Italian neighborhood and his childhood was very similar to your experience. His paternal grandparents were from Calabria, in Acri & his maternal grands were from Campobasso in southern Italy.

I grew up in NJ in an Italian/Irish neighborhood & one of my fondest memories was smelling Italian sauce on Sunday morning. My mother was not a great cook so our neighbors always sent sauce & meatballs because they knew I loved Italian food & later on taught me to cook Italian.

Speaking of hard times, I just saw the film “Cabrini” & a lot of the film was about the difficulties early Italian immigrants faced in NY. I went as a favor to my husband not expecting a good movie but it turned out to be good.

I want to see Cabrini, the movie, also. This woman established hospitals, orphanages, and schools in so many cities in the us including NYC, Chicago, New Orleans, Seattle, etc. For a woman, let alone an immigrant, she was one extraordinary woman.

When I was in a young woman I remember going to Mass at Mother Seton's shrine in the Battery. She was another remarkable immigrant woman who also established hospitals, schools, shelters, and the settlement house system for immigrants in NYC.

Stray · ‎04-20-2013

@NYwoman - it’s worth seeing Cabrini. It wasn’t a “religious” movie but more about her skills; she was very savvy with finance, was smart/clever, had organizational skills & great resolve tho frail. It really was a feminist view of Cabrini not her religious life.

Many criticized the movie because it didn’t emphasize her strong faith but her life & love of humankind was proof of her faith.

I think there is a new statue of Cabrini at battery park as well facing the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island which represents her dedication to the early immigrant populations. I’ve never gone to the Cabrini shrine in upper Manhattan which has 80% of her remains, according to what I’ve read. Her heart is in Italy.

I really had no plans to see the movie as I am not of the Catholic faith but my husband is & attended Catholic schools & college; he always loved the stories of Mothers Cabrini & Seton. I went to keep him company but the movie was one of the best I’ve seen in a while.