Barbara Klein

Barbara Klein holds an MA in Italian from Middlebury College. She is an instructor of Italian language at St. Louis Community College, translator to English of the book “For This I Lived” by Sami Modiano and president of the Italian Film Festival USA, which is an annual festival of contemporary Italian film occurring in April in fourteen US cities (www.italianfilmfests.org). Her grandparents were from towns near Cuggiono and she has collaborated with Oreste Magni and the Ecoistituto della valle del Ticino on several initiatives.

Lombardian town honors sports heroes from ‘The Hill’

What do Yogi Berra, Joe Garagiola, Frank Crespi and Jim Pisoni have in common? The baseball legends have been immortalized on a mural in Cuggiono, Italy! All four were born between 1918 to 1929 on “The Hill,” the legendary Italian-American neighborhood in St. Louis, to parents who had emigrated from western Lombardy, where Cuggiono is located. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, thousands of residents of Cuggiono and nearby towns such as Inveruno, Malvaglio, Buscate and Arconate immigrated to the United States, with St. Louis being one of their primary destinations. The idea to honor the four baseball stars …

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