Anthony Riccio, on his Italian American interviews with Spanish Flu Epidemic survivors.

Anthony Riccio Excerpts from his interviews, on the North End Boston, New Haven, and vanishing dialects. Brought to you by the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia Chicago. Anthony Riccio grew up in a working class neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, where you could hear the steady hum of the local American Steel and Wire factory all the way into the backyard gardens of the local Italian immigrants. Curious about his roots, and inspired by the stories his grandparents told him of southern Italy, Anthony returned to their villages in Campania in the early 1970s, photographing the old-world way of life his grandparents had left behind at the turn of the century. After graduating from Providence College in 1974, Anthony was awarded the “Florentine Fellowship” from Syracuse University for his master’s degree in Renaissance Art History in Florence, Italy. From 1978 to 1984, Anthony ran the North End Senior Citizen Center in Boston’s historic North End where he recorded the life stories of elderly It