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Roots and Wings [Grace Billoti Spinelli Autobiography] : Personal Account.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billoti Spinelli, Grace, author.
- Series:
- Migration to new worlds.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Text in English, Italian.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Description: Grace Billoti Spinelli was a Sicilian immigrant to the US. Her autobiography covers family, political and religious life in Sicily, Italian food, her education, and her emigration. Includes a number of recipes and recollections of a visit to Rome including an audience with the Pope.
- Notes:
- Grace Billotti Spinelli [Mrs. Marcos](c.1907) was born in the Province of Enna, Italy, and came to the United States in 1917. She was the Italian nationality worker at the Jersey City International Institute, and ran for mayor of Jersey City in 1940. She was associated with the YWCA for much of her life, and became industrial secretary of the Passaic, New Jersey, YWCA in 1946. Marcos Spinelli, a Brazilian of Tuscan background, became a well known writer in the United States.
- AMDigital Reference: IHRC2483.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on October 24, 2017).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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