[CatoRenasci]

No, San Francisco. The gentleman to whom I referred was my grandfather. My greatgrandfather was a Garibaldini (as a 12 year old drummer boy in 1860 and in 1866) and ended up with properties on the Adriatic coast which Mussolini confiscated in the late 1930's. When I first came to the East coast, I was shocked at both the discrimination against Italians (which was unknown in California - my grandfather, great uncles and cousins and our family moved quite freely in respectable WASP circles) and by the cultural and social millieu in which most Italians lived in the East.

[jjm2111]

Wow. A Garibaldini. Amazing. There's a lot of interesting history from that time period. I'm to young to have experienced any real anti-Italian discrimination, but there was plenty back in the day, I'm sure.

Did your grandfather get his properties back after WWII?