Antonetta. an Immigrant's Story

Antonia Vincitorio - Antonetta Vincitorio Lombardi was born in 1901 and died 1982. Who was this extraordinary woman raised without parents in Puglia, a southern region, with little but sunshine and fertile land? For the poor, the Italy of the early 1900s was very different from the Italy later visited by her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She began her life with no family and ended it with the enduring devotion of her six surviving children, their spouses, many grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Her story is our history. What was the source of the strength and optimism for this courageous woman who faced the early years of childhood without family on the massaria, the farm, to work for her keep from the age of nine? This is the story of Antonetta's migration, her Italian diasporic experience into a world anchored in her prayers and imagined in dreams, in a new world, in a land of hope and opportunity.