Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Life in Southern Italy at the Turn of the Century
  • Leaving Italy for the Promise of America
  • The Journey to Boston
  • A New Life in the North End
  • Becoming an American Citizen
  • The Italian Mother
  • The Italian Father
  • The Oral Tradition: Family Stories, Dialects, Folktales, and Prayers
  • Italy and the North End in World War I
  • Garlic, Camphor, and Anisette: The Spanish Flu Pandemic in the North End
  • The Molasses Explosion
  • Italian American Street Life
  • Going to School
  • Justice Denied: Sacco and Vanzetti
  • The Depression in the North End
  • Seamstresses and Factory Workers: Italian American Women at Work
  • Making It in the North End: Italian American Men at Work
  • Making Wine, Drinking Wine
  • Life in the Tenements
  • Sicilian Fishermen in the North End
  • Societies, Feasts, and Patron Saints
  • Christmas in the North End
  • Irish and Italians
  • Refugees in the North End: West Enders Tell Their Stories
  • Local Politics
  • The Gangster Stereotype: On the Screen and Real Life
  • Life in a Cold-Water Flat
  • The Changing North End
  • The Old Waterfront and the New Boston
  • Poor Tenant, Poor Landlord
  • Meglio Pane e Cipolla, e Sola
  • Epilogue: The North End Today / James Pasto.