Title Another City upon a Hill : a New England Memoir / Joseph A. Conforti

Published Lebanon : Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages) Series Portuguese in the Americas Series Portuguese in the Americas series. Contents Spindle City -- Family Migrations -- Street and Tenement -- "Up the Flint" -- Faith -- Aspirations -- Native Ground, Again -- Leaving Summary A searching portrait of a city battered by the collapse of the textile industry woven into a spirited coming of age story This memoir is both a personal story and a portrait of a distinctive New England place - Fall River, Massachusetts, once the cotton cloth capital of America. Growing up, the author's world was defined by rolling hills, granite mills, and forests of triple-deckers. The author, whose mother was Portuguese and whose father was Italian, recounts how he negotiated those identities in a city where ethnic heritage mattered. Paralleling his own account, he shares the story of his family, three generations of Portuguese and Italians who made their way in this once-mighty textile city Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Conforti, Joseph A. SUBJECT Conforti, Joseph A. fast Subject Portuguese Americans -- Massachusetts -- Fall River Italian Americans -- Massachusetts -- Fall River LAW -- Criminal Law -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Italian Americans Portuguese Americans Social conditions SUBJECT Fall River (Mass.) -- Social conditions Fall River (Mass.) -- History Fall River (Mass.) -- Biography Subject Massachusetts -- Fall River Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781933227573 1933227575

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