I like to tease Italo-american friends that they shouldn't celebrate Columbus Day, which commemorates, after all, a man who initiated the slaughter of indigenous peoples. I propose Larry da Ponte as another alternative, or Guglielmo Marconi, who lived in Staten Island, or even Madonna Ciccone, though she's only half Italian.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
Max Sawicky wrote:
> Italians were here in the 18th century?
> Who knew.
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> mbs
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> My Mom does geneology. "Cuz of that she has found out we go back to the
> Am. Revo. (damnit, though she disproved the family lore we are related to
> Jesse James!) so she is a member of the DAR. Sexist trivia on lefty folk
> singer Phil Ochs. On the double album, A & M compiliation album of Ochs,
> there are some live cuts. In one he interjects a definition of the DAR,
> "That's Dykes of the American Revolution." Gets big laugh.
> Is Kelly right? Who wuz Virginia Dare? And, Doug, btw, has on a few
> occasions, sent along VDARE articles by Sam Francis.
> Michael Pugliese