Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Jennifer Gillan / Maria Mazziotti Gillan / Edvige Giunta
PART ONE Looking Back
Combat Zones / Louise DeSalvo
Ocean City: Unto the Sons / Gay Talese
Hoboken: Three Circles of Light / Pietro di Donato
Trenton / Grace Cavalieri
Montclair Memories: Personal Reflections and an Oral Interview / Marisa S. Trubiano
Litania for My Mother's Hands / Edvige Giunta
Gardener / Edvige Giunta
A Trip Home / David Della Fera
IN DEPTH Paterson, the Alpha & the Omega
1915: Mill Song / William Harry Harding
Rebel Girls / Jennifer Guglielmo
We Must Rebel! / Maria Barbieri
To the Women Workers / Maria Roda
Paterson: 1913 / Josephine Stifavo
Time's End / Arturo Giovannitti
Dye House Strike, 1933 / Arturo Mazziotti
Downtown Paterson / Tom DeBlasio Carroll
The Tangerine Plymouth and the Gilded Cage / Rachel Guido de Vries
Paterson, New Jersey / Carole Maso
Public School No. 18, Paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
In the Stacks at the Paterson Public Library / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Growing Up Italian in Paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
PART TWO
Blending In Scents / Maria Laurino
Daddy, We Called You / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Third-Generation Hawthorne / Jennifer Gillan
Race Riot / Tom Perrotta
Dorissa / Daniela Gioseffi
Strike One: Seaside Heights, New Jersey / Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
Lyndhurst Memories / Ed Smith
Quench a Plant's Thirst / Edvige Giunta
St. Therese / Edvige Giunta
Nevertheless, It Moves / Susanne Antonetta
PART THREE Crossing Bridges
Hungry Dog / Agnes Rossi
Letter from New Jersey / Diane di Prima
On the Beaches of Wildwood, New Jersey / Mary Ann Mannino
June Wednesdays / Mary Ann Mannino
Suburban Backyards / June Avignone
Jersey Tomato Wars / Mary Ann Castronovo Fusco
I Check Other / Carla Guerriero
Miracle Baby: A Boy Named Phyllis / Frank DeCaro
Class Quartet / Janet Zandy
IN DEPTH Interstate Commerce, New York & New Jersey Bound Moving to Wood-Ridge / Bill Ervolino
Pizza / Michele Linfante
Snowball / Rosette Capotorto
Passaic River Crossing / Flavia Alaya
Lincoln Tunnel: Jersey Bound Salvatore / Amico M. Buttaci
Summer Job / Frank Finale
PART FOUR Changing Direction
Liberating Memory / Janet Zandy
Circolo / Michele Linfante
Bald / Loryn Lipari
Today Your Name Is Mary / Carole Maso
Carlton Fredricks and My Mother Maria / Mazziotti Gillan
Greenwood Lake / Diane di Prima
Elizabeth / Susanne Antonetta
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