Concettina Died and Other Stories of the East Side

Beginning a New Life: Mary DeGennaro LoBasso

Episode Summary

1930. A young woman and her two older siblings are called away from Molfetta, Italy, to New York City.

Episode Notes

"The three DeGennaro children departed Italy June 25, 1930, from Naples, aboard the Italian ship Augustus. Nine days later they arrived at the Port of New York."

A teenager's migration to a new life in American begins an upward trajectory for this independent Italian woman that would last into the twenty-first century.