Orange Item of the Week

Spring is finally here.  Well Sort of.  I am trying to usher in the season with a fabulous mismatched manicure.  The orange item?  My ring fingers.  I have no idea why my camera has aged my hands and I am choosing to ignore it.

Columbus Day Readings

Columbus Day is on October 10 this year! Some people love him, some people hate him. Get to know this enigmatic figure and how his journey shaped our nation. Discover more about Italian immigrants and Italian Americans who followed in Columbus's footsteps and still help shape our world.

The log of Christopher Columbus, by Christopher Columbus and Robert Henderson Fuson

The Caribbean as Columbus saw it, by Samuel Eliot Morison

The mysterious history of Columbus : an exploration of the man, the myth, the legacy, by John Noble Wilford

Christopher Columbus, by Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford

Columbus : the four voyages, by Laurence Bergreen

The admiral and his lady : Columbus and Filipa of Portugal, by Maria de Freitas Treen

The memoirs of Christopher Columbus, a novel by Stephen Marlowe-- A downloadable book

1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus, created by Charles C. Mann

The conquest of paradise : Christopher Columbus and the Columbian legacy, by Kirkpatrick Sale

Conquest of Eden, 1493-1515 : other voyages of Columbus, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Virgin Islands, by Michael Paiewonski

The lure of gold, by William B. Goodwin

After Columbus: the Smithsonian chronicle of the North American Indians, by Herman J. Viola

The Italian American Experience

The Italian Americans, by Allon Schoener

Elodia Rigante's Italian immigrant cooking, by Elodia Rigante

How Italian food conquered the world, John F. Mariani

The Italian Americans, The Immigrant heritage of America series, by Luciano J. Iorizzo and Salvatore Mondello

The immigrants speak : Italian Americans tell their story, by Salvatore J. LaGumina

Italians in America : a celebration ,Published for the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) by Cataldo Leone

The Italian American reader : a collection of outstanding fiction, memoirs, journalism, essays, and poetry / edited by Bill Tonelli ; foreword by Nick Tosches

From immigrants to ethnics : the Italian Americans, by Humbert S. Nelli

The Italian American experience in New Haven, by Anthony V. Riccio

The Italian American experience : an encyclopedia, by Salvatore J. LaGumina

Growing up Italian : how being brought up as an Italian-American helped shape the characters, lives, and fortunes of twenty-four celebrated Americans, by Linda Brandi Cateura

A Few Famous Italian Americans

Frank Stella : painting into architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ella : a biography of Governor Ella Grasso, by Susan Bysiewicz

Atoms in the family : my life with Enrico Fermi, by Laura Fermi

All the things you are : the life of Tony Bennett, by David Evanier

Poker face : the rise and rise of Lady Gaga, by Maureen Callahan-- electronic resource

When you come to a fork in the road, take it! : inspiration and wisdom from one of baseball's greatest heroes, by Yogi Berra with David Kaplan

56 : Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, by Koysta Kennedy

Capone : the life and world of Al Capone, by John Kobler