Publications and Other Media
Below is a list of articles, books and other publications in the Italian Heritage Collection, Hood Local History Center, Citizens Library. Those available in electronic format on this website are indicated.
Newspaper Articles:
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Marilyn A. Posner, "St. John: Washington’s Sister City in Italy,” Observer-Reporter, August 31, 1981.
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Tina Calabro, “Tylerdale garage a wealth of history,” Observer-Reporter, April 8, 2016.
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Rick Shrum, “Washington’s Italian Heritage will be on display at Citizens Library,” Observer-Reporter,
December 29, 2016.
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Tina Calabro, “Slices of Life: Collecting the stories of Washington’s first Italian families,” Observer-Reporter, September 19, 2017.
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Tina Calabro, “‘Garage Museum’ finds a home,” Observer-Reporter, June 6, 2018.
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Tina Calabro, “Lodges played large part in Italian-American history,” Observer-Reporter, September 25, 2018
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Bob Batz "Angelo's Restaurant: Still saucy at age 79," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 5, 2018.
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Tina Calabro, "Washington Italian Festival to honor city’s historic barbers,” Observer-Reporter, September 27, 2019.
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Rick Shrum, “That’s Amore: South Strabane Township Native Exploring Washington's Italian Heritage,” Observer-Reporter, August 6, 2021.
Magazine Articles:
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Tina Calabro, “Servant 'Up on the Hill': My Italian American Grandmother,” Western Pennsylvania History,
Winter, 2015.
Blogs:
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Melissa E. Marinaro, "Researching and Writing with the Italian American Program"
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Memoirs, Family Histories, Immigration History:
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Laura Adamsky, Salvatore Veltri and Saveria Matragrano Genealogy
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Mary Brignano and Nicholas Ciotola, Boundless Lives: Italian Americans of Western Pennsylvania (2002), Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
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Nicholas P. Ciotola, Italians of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania (2005), Images of America
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Floyd Marasco, Tylerdale…as I remember it! (2010)
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Virginia Proia Rea, 104 Life Lessons Learned (2015)
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Virginia Proia Rea, On the Virg: Stories of our Italian Family (2016)
Other Publications:
Program Books from Washington County Italian Heritage Festivals, 1982-1988.
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Anthony Walter Costanzo, "A Geographic Study of the Italian Community in Washington, PA: 1900 – 1970,” master’s thesis, Penn State University, 1973.
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Sunda Cornetti, “The Assimilation of Italian Immigrant and their Children Through a Variety of Educational Experiences in a Rural Area,” doctoral dissertation, West Virginia University, 1986.
Audio and Video:
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Interview with Joe Mancuso (2017), conducted by Bill Belleno, Joe Kanotz and Tom Olszewski