Portraits of Sicily: A New Chapter in a Sicilian Family History

This article originally appeared in the August 2015 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. In 1917, Anna D’Angelo and her three eldest children left Castellammare del Golfo for New York City, where Anna’s husband had emigrated a year before. Although he would eventually prove unstable, the couple had six more children. Jean, born in 1924 in Detroit, was the last and most…

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