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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "Italian Americans"
Male Notte: The Untold Story of Italian Relocation During World War II, by
Geoffrey Dunn
On a quiet evening in February of 1942, fifty years ago this coming month, Celestina Batistina Loero, my great grandmother, ... [Read more]
Una Storia Segreta, by
Lawrence DiStasi and Adele Negro and Rose Scherini
UNA STORIA SEGRETA (the words in Italian mean both a secret story and a secret history), was developed by the ... [Read more]
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PART 3: THE MASON-HENRY GANG
The next band of Confederate guerrillas to hide out at the mountain camp among the redwoods above Corralitos was the Mason-Henry Gang. This band of cutthroats was led by John Mason and James Henry, two southern boys who hid their depredations behind the semi-respectability ..." [More]
Excerpted from Copperheads--Part 3 by Phil Reader
