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NBC’s Family Portrait

TV show from 1976. Watch Part One and Part Two.

Lucia Santorsa Becce Making Cheese

Lucia Santorsa Becce with her daughter-in-law, Beatrice Fergeson Becce, make cheese and can tomatoes in the farm’s kitchen. White there’s no sound we can see the way they worked together in the kitchen. Beatrice Fergeson was married to Lucia’s only son, Rocco Becce. Then we see Lucia in her bedroom with her wedding dress laid out on her bed talking with her granddaughter, Joanna Clapps Herman.
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Aunt Toni Making Cheese

A family video where Aunt Toni demonstrates how to make cheese
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MY GRANDMOTHER, LUCIA SANTORSA BECCE,
RECOUNTING HER EARLY LIFE STORIES
TO HER SECOND DAUGHTER, OUR MOTHER ROSE

Listen to the audio. Read the transcript.

We’re Alone Come to Dinner
(in Dialect and English)

This is a verbatim telephone conversation, recorded by our delightful Uncle Nunzio, who knew when something was funny. It captures perfectly the use of our Tolvese dialect, and they way in which our family elders switched back and forth seamlessly between dialect and English, even mid-sentence.
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