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Sons of Italy is a fraternal organization dedicated to promoting Italian culture and heritage. Our motto is "liberty, equality, and fraternity VOLUME – 12 ISSUE – 2 APRIL - JUNE ( Spring Qtr ) 2014
Website – http://www.orgsites.com/ga/italians
In Memory of Our Departed Members
Dee Arasi Ralph Palladino Rita Morano
Harold Valery Mike Moffitt Silverio Buonocore
Vita Scacco Lorayne Attubato William J. Bloodgood
Bob Bietighofer Ann Testa Donald F. Stokes
Anthony Joseph Bova Vito Charles Leanza Wallace Fredrick Beard
Lina ( Lee ) Scognamiglio Joeseph Lonati Anthony ( Tony ) Pucci
Rest in Peace
2014 — 2016 OFFICERS
President Greg Martini 678-493-8498 [email protected]
Vice President Edward Lauda 770-592-9828 [email protected]
Immediate Past President L J Benton 770-928-9314 [email protected]
Orator Open
Recording Secretary Terry Martini 678-493-8498 [email protected]
Financial Secretary Santo Scacco 770-924-2360 [email protected]
Treasurer Vincent Belmonte 770-971-7746 [email protected]
Guard Frank Masi 770-354-5855 [email protected]
Trustee John Brisacone 770-928-0062 [email protected]
Trustee Pauline Brisacone 770-928-0062 [email protected]
Trustee Dawn Benton 770-928-9314 [email protected]
Trustee Deborah Lauda 770-592-9828 [email protected]
Trustee Christine Beard 770-594-1354 [email protected]
Mistress of Ceremonies Antoinette Scarimbolo 770-721-7074 [email protected]
Master of Ceremonies Joe Scarimbolo 770-721-7074 [email protected]
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Fun Facts About Italy. Bet You Didn't Know!
1. Rome is further North than New York City. New York City is about the same latitude as Naples Italy
2. In Rome and Naples, it only snows briefly once every several years while in New York snow is very frequent in the Winter.
3. Pizza was "invented" in Naples around 1860s
4. Pizza is one of the very few words which is understood all over the world
5. Italy is slightly larger than Arizona.
6. Almost 20% of Italy's population is over 65 years old.
7. Italy borders Austria, France, Vatican City, San Marino,
Slovenia, and Switzerland.
8. Its longest border is with Switzerland.
9. The average Italian family has 1.27 children.
10. Everybody 18 and over can vote, however you have to be at least 25 to vote in Senate elections.
11. The Italian flag is inspired by the French flag introduced during Napo-leon's 1797 invasion of the peninsula.
12. The average Italian makes $26,700 a year, however those in the more prosperous north make almost $40,000.
13. The thermometer is an Italian invention.
14. Italy's unemployment rate is around 8.6%, but it is as high as 20% in the more impoverished south.
15. Italian farms produce grapes, potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain, ol-ives, beef, and dairy.
16. The name of Electricity measurement Volt comes from Alessandro Volta who invented the first battery in 1779
17. The average life expectancy at birth for an Italian is 79.54 years.
18. The famous children's story, Pinocchio , was written by an Italian.
19. The city of Naples gave birth to the pizza.
20. The piano hails from Italy
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FAMOUS ITALIANS
Maria Bello
Date of Birth: April 18, 1967
Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Maria Bello is of
Polish and Italian heritage. Hoping to become a lawyer, she studied Pre-Law/Political Science at Vil-
lanova University, but while there she fell in love with acting after choosing a drama class as an elec-
tive. Following graduation in 1989, Bello headed to New York City to pursue an acting career. She took
on a variety of odd jobs to support herself, includ-ing walking dogs, cleaning houses, bartending and
waiting tables. However, while working at Tartine, a French restaurant, she was named "the worst waitress in the city" in a re-
view. She slowly began to land roles in commercials and plays, and made her film debut with a small role in an independent, low budget film called
Maintenance (1992). In 1995, she began to make guest appearances on television shows such as The Commish, Misery Loves Company, Nowhere
Man and Due South and in 1996, she won the role of Mrs. Smith in the CBS spy-adventure series Mr. and Mrs. Smith, co-starring Scott Bakula. She
learned to kickbox for the show, but unfortunately, it was cancelled after only eight episodes aired.
However, a few months later, several guest appearances on the hit medical series ER led to Bello being asked to join the cast as Dr. Anna Del Amico for the fourth season. She stayed with the show for one year before leaving to
concentrate on a film career, after landing a role in the Mel Gibson flick Payback (1999). She won a Blockbuster Entertainment award as Best Sup-
porting Actress in Coyote Ugly (2000), then acted alongside Gwyneth Pal-trow in Duets (2000) and landed the starring role in the IMAX film called
China: The Panda Adventure (2000).
Other feature film credits include Sam the Man (2000), 100 Mile Rule
(2002) and Auto Focus (2002). In 2003 Bello received a Golden Globe nomination for her supporting role in The Cooler (2003), starring William H.
Macy and Alec Baldwin. She followed that up by playing Johnny Depp's ex-wife in Secret Window (2004). Subsequent screen roles include A History of
Violence (2005),for which she received her second Golden Globe nomina-tion; The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009); and the comedy Grown Ups
(2010), playing Kevin James' wife.
Bello co-founded DreamYard Drama Project, a not-for-profit arts and edu-cation program for at-risk youth, and is affiliated with Save the Children—
traveling to Kosovo in April 1999 to work with underprivileged children. On March 5, 2001, she and her live-in boyfriend, TV executive Dan McDermott,
welcomed their first son, Jackson Blue. They make their home in Los Ange-les.
The sinking of the Titanic claimed some 1,500 lives, among them a gallery of early 20th-
century A-list celebrities. Captains of industry John Jacob Astor IV and Benjamin Guggen-heim both went down with the ship, as did Macy’s co-owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida,
who refused to leave his side. The popular American mystery writer Jacques Futrelle, the American painter and sculptor Francis Millet, and Maj. Archibald Butt, friend and aide to then
-President William Howard Taft, were lost as well.
But for all the boldface names among the Titanic’s victims, many more might have been
aboard, but for the vagaries of fate. Among them were:
Theodore Dreiser
The novelist, then 40, considered returning from his first European holiday aboard the Titanic; an English publisher talked him out of
the plan, persuading the writer that taking another ship would be
less expensive.
Dreiser was at sea aboard the liner Kroonland when he heard the
news. He recalled his reaction the following year in his memoir, A Traveler at Forty: “To think of a ship as immenseas the Titanic,
new and bright, sinking in endless fathoms of water. And the two
thousand passengers routed like rats from their berths only to float
helplessly in miles of water, praying and crying!”
Guglielmo Marconi
The Italian inventor, wireless telegraphy pioneer and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics was offered free passage on Titanic but had taken the Lusitania three days earlier. As his
daughter Degna later explained, he had paperwork to do and pre-ferred the public stenographer aboard that vessel.
Although Marconi was later grilled by a Senate committee over alle-gations that his company’s wireless operators had withheld news from the public in order to sell information to the New York Times,
he emerged from the disaster as one of its heroes, his invention credited with saving more than 700 lives.
Three years later, Marconi would narrowly escape another famous maritime disaster. He was on board the Lusitania in April 1915 on the voyage immediately before it was sunk by a Ger-
man U-boat in May.
Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
The 34-year-old multimillionaire sportsman, an heir to the
Vanderbilt shipping and railroad empire, was returning from a trip to Europe and canceled his passage on the Titanic so late
that some early newspaper accounts listed him as being on
board. Vanderbilt lived on to become one the most celebrated casualties of the Lusitania sinking three years later.
Milton Snavely Hershey
The man behind the Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar, Hershey’s Kisses, Hershey’s Syrup, and the Pennsylvania city that bears
his name had spent the winter in France and planned to sail home on the Titanic. The Hershey Community Archives has in
its collection a $300 check Hershey wrote to the White Star
Line in December 1911, believed to be a 10 percent deposit toward his stateroom, according to archivist Tammy L. Hamil-ton. Fortunately for Hershey, business back home apparently
intervened, and he and his wife instead caught a ship that was sailing earlier, the German liner Amerika. The Amerika would
earn its own footnote in the disaster, as one of several ships
to send the Titanic warnings of ice in its path.
J. Pierpont Morgan
The legendary 74-year-old financier, nicknamed the “Napoleon of Wall Street,” had helped create General Electric and U.S. Steel and was credited with almost singlehandedly saving the
U.S. banking system during the Panic of 1907. Among his varied business interests was the International Mer-
cantile Marine, the shipping combine that controlled Britain’s White Star Line, owner of the Titanic. Morgan attended the
ship’s launching in 1911 and had a personal suite on board with
his own private promenade deck and a bath equipped with spe-cially designed cigar holders. He was reportedly booked on the maiden voyage but instead remained at the French resort of Aix
to enjoy his morning massages and sulfur baths.
“Monetary losses amount to nothing in life,” he told a visiting New York Times reporter
days after the sinking. “It is the loss of life that counts. It is that frightful death.”
Henry Clay Frick
The Pittsburgh steel baron was a business associate of fellow non-
passenger J.P. Morgan. He canceled his passage on the Titanic when his wife sprained her ankle and had to be hospital-
ized in Italy.
John R. Mott
Though perhaps less well known today than the others on our
list, Mott was an influential evangelist and longtime YMCA offi-cial, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. He and a col-league were supposedly offered free passage on the Titanic by a
White Star Line official interested in their work but declined and instead took the more humble liner Lapland. According to a biog-
raphy by C. Howard Hopkins, when they reached New York and
heard about the disaster, “It is said that the two men looked at each other and one voiced their common thought: ‘The Good
Lord must have more work for us to do.’ ”
Legions more who "just missed" the ship
Many families on both sides of the Atlantic have stories of relatives who might have been aboard the Titanic but, fortunately for future generations, missed the boat.
Though only a small percentage of such tales may have much basis in reality, they are
part of a long tradition.
In fact, within days of the disaster, newspapers were already remarking on the phe-
nomenon. “ ‘JUST MISSED IT’ CLUB FORMED WITH 6,904 MEMBERS,” Michi-gan’s Sault Ste. Marie Evening News headlined an April 20, 1912 story, five days after
the sinking. Later it quoted one Percival Slathersome, a presumably fictional artist, as
saying, “I count it lucky that I didn’t have the price to go abroad this year. If all of us who ‘just missed it’ had got aboard the Titanic she would have sunk at the Liverpool
dock from the overload.”
By the time Ohio’s Lima Daily News weighed in, on April 26, the club seems to have
grown considerably. “Up to the present time the count shows that just 118,337 people escaped death because they missed the Titanic or changed their minds a moment be-
fore sailing time,” the newspaper observed.
By Greg Daugherty Smithsonian magazine, March 2012
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Introduction The Gullah are a distinctive group of Black Americans
from South Carolina and Georgia in the southeastern United States. They live in small farming and fishing communities along the Atlantic coastal plain and on the
chain of Sea Islands which runs parallel to the coast. Because of their geographical isolation and strong community life, the Gullah have been able to preserve
more of their African cultural heritage than any other group of Black Americans. They speak a creole lan-guage similar to Sierra Leone Krio, use African names,
tell African folktales, make African-style handicrafts such as baskets and carved walking sticks, and enjoy a rich cuisine based primarily on rice.
Indeed, rice is what forms the special link between the Gullah and the people of Sierra Leone. During the 1700s the American colonists in South Carolina and Georgia discov-
ered that rice would grow well in the moist, semitropical country bordering their coast-line. But the American colonists had no experience with the cultivation of rice, and they needed African slaves who knew how to plant, harvest, and process this difficult crop.
The white plantation owners purchased slaves from various parts of Africa, but they greatly preferred slaves from what they called the "Rice Coast" or "Windward Coast"—the traditional rice-growing region of West Africa, stretching from Senegal down to Si-
erra Leone and Liberia. The plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for slaves from this area, and Africans from the Rice Coast were almost certainly the larg-est group of slaves imported into South Carolina and Georgia during the 18th century.
The Gullah people are directly descended from the slaves who labored on the rice plantations, and their language reflects significant influences from Sierra Leone and
the surrounding area. The Gullahs' English-based creole language is strikingly similar to Sierra Leone Krio and contains such identical expressions as bigyai (greedy), pan-
tap (on top of), ohltu (both), tif (steal), yeys (ear), and swit (delicious).
Mrs. Queen Ellis of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
making a Gullah basket (1976).
But, in addition to words derived from English, the
Gullah creole also contains several thousand words and personal names derived from African lan-guages—and a large proportion of these (about
25%) are from languages spoken in Sierra Leone. The Gullah use such masculine names as Sorie, Tamba, Sanie, Vandi, and Ndapi, and such feminine
names as Kadiatu, Fatimata, Hawa, and Isata—all
common in Sierra Leone.
As late as the 1940s, a Black American linguist found Gullahs in rural South Carolina and Georgia
who could recite songs and fragments of stories in Mende and Vai, and who could do simple counting in the Guinea/Sierra Leone dialect of Fula. In fact,
all of the African texts that Gullah people have pre-served are in languages spoken within Sierra Leone
and along its borders.
The connection between the Gullah and the people of Sierra Leone is
a very special one. Sierra Leone has al-ways had a small population, and Sierra Leonean slaves were always greatly out-
numbered on the plantations by slaves from more populous parts of Africa—except in South Carolina and Georgia. The rice plantation zone of coastal South
Carolina and Georgia was the only place in the Americas where Sierra Leonean slaves came together in large enough
numbers and over a long enough period of time to leave a significant linguistic and cultural impact.
While Nigerians may point to Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti as places where Nigerian culture is still evident, Sierra Leoneans can look to the Gullah of South Carolina and Georgia
as a kindred people sharing many common elements of speech, custom, culture, and cuisine.
.
Origin of the Gullah
The Gullah people are the descendants of the slaves who worked on the rice planta-tions in South Carolina and Georgia. They still live in rural communities in the coastal
region and on the Sea islands of those two states, and they still retain many elements of African language and culture. Anyone interested in the Gullah must ask how they have managed to keep their special identity and so much more of their African cultural
heritage than any other group of Black Americans. The answer is to be found in the warm, semitropical climate of coastal South Carolina and Georgia; in the system of rice agriculture adopted there in the 1700s; and in a disease environment imported uninten-
tionally from Africa. These factors combined almost three hundred years ago to pro-duce an atmosphere of geographical and social isolation among the Gullah which has
lasted, to some extent, up until the present day.
The climate of coastal South Carolina and Georgia was excellent for the cultivation of
rice, but it proved equally suitable for the spread of tropical diseases. The African slaves brought malaria and yellow fever which thrived on the swampy coastal plain and especially around the flooded rice plantations. The slaves had some inherited resis-
tance to these tropical diseases, but their masters were extremely vulnerable. The white planters moved their houses away from the rice fields and adopted the custom of leaving their farms altogether during the rainy summer and autumn months when fever
ran rampant.
The plantations were run on a day-to-day basis by a few white managers assisted,
quite often, by certain talented and trusted slaves working as foreman or "drivers." The white population in the region stayed relatively low, but the importation of African slaves increased as the rice plantation system expanded and generated more and
more profits. By 1708,
"The Old Plantation," South Carolina, about 1790. This famous painting shows Gullah slaves danc-
ing and playing musical instruments derived from Africa. Scholars unaware of the Sierra Leone
slave trade connection have interpreted the two female figures as performing a "scarf" dance. Sierra
Leoneans can easily recognize that they are playing the shegureh, a women's instrument (rattle)
there was a black majority in South Carolina, a unique situation among the North American Colonies. A European arriving in Charlestown in the 1730s remarked that
"Carolina looks more like a negro country than a country settled by white people."
The Gullah slaves in coastal South Carolina and Georgia lived in a very different situa-
tion from that of slaves in other North American colonies. The Gullahs had little contact with whites. They experienced a largely isolated community life on the rice plantations, and their isolation and numerical strength enabled them to preserve a great many Afri-
can cultural traditions. By the early 1700s the Gullah slaves were already bringing to-gether distinctive language, rituals, customs, music, crafts, and diet drawing on the cul-tures of the various African tribes they represented. The emergence of the Gullah was
due, above all, to the isolation of black slaves in a disease environment hostile to whites and to their numerical predominance in the region—but another important factor was the continuing importation of slaves directly from Africa, and especially from the
rice-growing areas along the West Coast. The South Carolina and Georgia planters realized that the specialized nature of their crop required a constant influx of slaves born in Africa, not in the West Indies or in the neighboring colonies. So, a black com-
munity, already isolated from whites, was being constantly renewed by forced immigra-
tion from Africa.
The isolation of the Gullah community lasted throughout the period of slavery and con-tinued even after the U.S. Civil War (1860-65) and the emancipation of the slaves. The
Gullahs on the mainland continued to work on the rice plantations as wage laborers after gaining their freedom, but the rice economy of South Carolina and Georgia col-lapsed after about 1890 due to competition with rice farmers farther west in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. By 1900, the rice plantations were all abandoned, and the fields
were returning to swampland. The Gullah people were left in an area of little commer-cial importance and of little interest to the outside world. On the Sea Islands, the rice and cotton plantations were abandoned after the Civil War, leaving the Gullahs there in
one of the most geographically isolated regions in the United States. The first bridges were not built until the 1920s, and a decade later there were still adults on the islands who had never visited the U.S. mainland. But World War II and the great changes in
American life since then have had a profound impact on the Gullah community. Many people have found economic opportunities outside the area, and return only occasion-ally for holidays and family gatherings. The Gullah people are no longer as isolated,
and there is increasing influence through the media of American popular culture. But the Gullah continue to regard themselves as a distinct community, and they continue to
cherish their unique heritage.
Editors Note: Growing up in Charleston SC., we had a Gullah maid ( who was also a
nanny ) and she was treated as family. The Gullah people kept to themselves, and
easy to get along with.
Herbert Hoover Thirty-First President
1929-1933
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and
humanitarian. Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Ore-
gon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer.
He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China, where he worked for a private cor-poration as China's leading engineer. In June 1900
the Boxer Rebellion caught the Hoovers in Tientsin. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy
fire. While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades,
and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, Germany declared
war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States. Next Hoover turned to a far more difficult task, to feed Belgium, which had been overrun by the German army.
After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed over-
seas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies fed. After the Armistice, Hoover, a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of
the American Relief Administration, organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia in 1921. When a critic inquired if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, Hoover retorted, "Twenty million
people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!"
After capably serving as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coo-lidge, Hoover became the Republican Presidential nominee in 1928. He said then: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the
history of any land." His election seemed to ensure prosperity. Yet within months the stock market crashed, and the Nation spiraled downward into depression.
After the crash Hoover announced that while he would keep the Federal budget bal-anced, he would cut taxes and expand public works spending.
In 1931 repercussions from Europe deepened the crisis, even though the President presented to Congress a program asking for creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid business, additional help for farmers facing mortgage foreclosures,
banking reform, a loan to states for feeding the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic governmental economy.
At the same time he reiterated his view that while people must not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility.
His opponents in Congress, who he felt were sabotaging his program for their own po-litical gain, unfairly painted him as a callous and cruel President. Hoover became the scapegoat for the depression and was badly defeated in 1932. In the 1930's he be-
came a powerful critic of the New Deal, warning against tendencies toward statism. In 1947 President Truman appointed Hoover to a commission, which elected him chair-man, to reorganize the Executive Departments. He was appointed chairman of a simi-
lar commission by President Eisenhower in 1953. Many economies resulted from both commissions' recommendations. Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, one of which he was working on when he died at 90 in New York City on Octo-
ber 20, 1964.
Herbert Clark Hoover The Thirty-First President
• 1929-1933
“The Great Engineer”
Biographical Facts
Birth: West Branch, Iowa, August 10, 1874
Ancestry: Swiss-German Father: Jesse Clark Hoover
Birth: Miami County, Ohio, September 2, 1846 Death: West Branch, Iowa,
December 14, 1880 Occupation: Blacksmith
Mother: Hulda Randall Minthorn Hoover Birth: Norwich, Oxford County, Canada, May 4, 1849
Death: West Branch, Iowa, February 22, 1883
Brother: Theodore Jesse Hoover (1871-1955) Sister: Mary "May" Hoover (1876-1950)
Marriage: Monterey, California, February 10, 1899
Wife: Lou Henry Hoover Birth: Waterloo, Iowa, March 29, 1875
Death: New York, New York, January 7, 1944
Children: Herbert Clark Hoover (1903-
1969); Allan Henry Hoover (1907-1993) Religious Affiliation: Quaker
Education: Local Schools; Newberg Acad-emy; Stanford University (B.A., 1895)
Occupations Before Presidency: Miner; Engineer
Prepresidential Offices: Chairman of Com-mission for Relief in Belgium; United
States food administrator; Chairman of Su-preme Economic Council; Secretary of Commerce
Inauguration Age: 54
Occupations After Presidency: Chairman of the Commission for Polish Relief; Chair-man of Finnish Relief Fund; Coordinator of European Food Program; Chairman of
Commission on Organization of the Execu-tive Branch of the Government (Hoover Commission); Writer
Death: New York, New York, October 20, 1964
Place of Burial: Hoover Presidential Li-brary, West Branch, Iowa
KNOW YOUR PRESIDENTS
EARLY ILLINOIS HISTORY
The first Europeans to set foot in Illinois were most likely the French explorer Louis Jol-liet and Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette. In 1673, they traveled the river subse-
quently called Illinois (after the Indian confederacy inhabiting the region). Chokia, the oldest town in Illinois, was founded in 1699. The region was ceded to the British in 1763 under the terms of the Treaty of Paris, concluding the French and Indian War.
Following the American Revolution, the U.S. gained control of Illinois and adjacent re-gions. In 1809, Illinois Territory, consisting of almost the entire area occupied by the present-day state, plus most of Wisconsin and part of Minnesota, was established. Illi-
nois became the 21st state on December 3, 1818. Many Illinois settlers had emigrated from the South, and as a result considerable proslavery sentiment existed in the new state. Abraham Lincoln, who would become America's 16th president in 1861, moved
to Illinois in 1830. In 1832, about 500 Indians, led by the Sac chief Black Hawk, waged a bitter war against the whites in northern Illinois; defeated, the Indians were expelled from the region. In the aftermath, large numbers of emigrants from the New England
and Middle Atlantic states arrived in northern Illinois, speeding economic development and the anti-slavery movement. Chicago, now the nation's third-largest city, was incor-porated in 1837.
ILLINOIS'S MIDDLE HISTORY
Illinois sided with the Union during the American Civil War. In October 1871, a fire dev-astated a large part of Chicago, leaving 100,000 people homeless. The loss to the city
was estimated at nearly $300 million. Relations between labor and management have often been stormy in Illinois. Bitter strikes, such as the one that precipitated the Hay-market Square riot, occurred in 1885�86. In 1894, a strike of the employees of the
Pullman Car Co. developed into a general strike of railway men. Chicago was occupied by federal troops; the leaders of the strike were imprisoned for contempt of court. Industry expanded rapidly, accompanied by a massive worker migration to Illinois cit-
ies. The state had long had a remarkable transportation system, central to which was the Illinois Waterway, a network of rivers and canals linking Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. With Chicago as the hub of industrial activity, Illinois experienced the
most spectacular expansion of manufacturing in U.S. history. By the mid-1950s, the iron and steel industry ranked first in the nation and represented half the state's total manufactures. By the 1960s, Illinois was adding automobile and tire plants and ex-
panding production of equipment for the U.S. space program. .
ILLINOIS ( The Prairie State ) Year of Statehood Dec. 03, 1818
ILLINOIS TODAY
Illinois was transformed into a leading manufacturing region in the late 19th century but
has retained its position as one of the nation's leading agricultural states, with corn, soybeans, cattle and hogs as key commodities. The Prairie State is also a top pro-ducer of coal. The Chicago area is a major transportation hub, as well as a key U.S.
industrial, commercial and financial center. The state was in the national spotlight in 2000 when Governor George H. Ryan, a long-time supporter of capital punishment, imposed a moratorium on executions after inves-
tigations revealed that a significant number of death-row inmates had been wrongfully convicted. Shortly before leaving office in January 2003, Ryan vacated all of the state's death sentences.
Famous Illinoisans include social reformer Jane Addams; writers Saul Bellow and Carl Sandburg; U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; attorney and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow; blacksmith and manufacturer John Deere; retailer Marshall Field; feminist
Betty Friedan; meat company founder Oscar Mayer; 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan; writer Carl Sandburg; and architect Frank Lloyd Wright
ILLINOIS Fun Facts
Abraham Lincoln started his law career in Illinois, which is sometimes called the Land
of Lincoln.
The world's first McDonald's franchise was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois, in 1955.
In 1830, the site of what would become Chicago was only a cluster of 20 log cabins. To-
day Chicago is home to the nation's tallest building - the 110-story Sears Tower.
A prairie is a large area of grassland with few, if any, trees. Prairies are known for their
rich soil. Many of the prairies in Illinois are now farms that grow soybeans and corn.
Prairies are also famous for prairie dogs.
Illinois has a state dance--square dancing.
Every year on St. Patrick's Day, the Chicago River is dyed green to honor of the city's
Irish heritage.
In 1893, the Rueckheim brothers introduced a new snack made of popcorn, peanuts and
molasses at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was --and still is--known as
Cracker Jack.
Crystal Lake, Illinois is home to the Precision Lawn Chair Marching Dads, a parade
group of Illinois men that entertains crowds by executing drills with lawn chairs. Wear-
ing white tank tops, stars-and-stripes boxer shorts and black socks, they perform to the
beat of chants like "She don't know and I don't care, I'm wearing yesterday's under-
wear."
The Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, Illinois, commemorates the life
and work of Illinois native Chester Gould, the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip.
Chic Young, creator of the Blondie comic strip, is also an Illinois native.
Libby's plants 5,000 acres of Dickinson Select pumpkins each year in and around Mor-
ton, Illinois. Morton, where 80 percent of the world's canned pumpkin is packed at the
Libby's factory, is known as the "Pumpkin Capital of the World." The town hosts an an-
nual Pumpkin Festival to celebrate the start of the pumpkin canning season.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
We would like to wish a
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
We want to wish a
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Carol Pucci 4/8/2007
Constance Esposito 4/23/2007
Deborah Lauda 5/5/2007
Dominick Esposito 5/9/2007
Christine Beard 5/18/2007
Joseph Scarimbolo 5/18/2007
AI Como 6/10/2007
Geraldine Bustamante 6/22/2007
John Dorso 6/27/2007
Vincent and Rosemarie Belmonte
4/25/2008 4/25/2008 John & Pauline Brisacone 5/1/1954
LJ & Dawn Benton 6/30/1973
Joseph & Joan Coppolino 6/1/1968 Herman & Geraldine Bustamante
6/1/1981
Vincent and Rosemarie Belmonte 4/25/2008
John & Pauline Brisacone 5/1/1954
Frank & Frances Giove 6/24/1961
LJ & Dawn Benton 6/30/1973
Joseph & Joan Coppolino 6/1/1968
Herman & Geraldine Bustamante 6/1/1981
HALLOWEEN 2014 AT KENNESAW STATE UNIV
YEARLY FOOD SCHEDULE AT COBB GOV CENTER ( repeats every year )
JAN APRIL OCT
Arcaro to Colella Meat, Fish Etc
Como to Leverone Pasta, Vegetables, Salad *
Lonati to Testa Dessert, Fruit
FEB MAY NOV
Arcaro to Colella Dessert, Fruit
Como to Leverone Meat, Fish Etc
Lonati to Testa Pasta, Vegetables, Salad *
MARCH SEPT DEC
Arcaro to Colella Pasta, Vegetables, Salad *
Como to Leverone Dessert, Fruit
Lonati to Testa Meat, Fish Etc
JUNE JULY AUG All Members Appetizers, Dessert, Fruit
Only
* Bread optional with one of the above
If a meeting is scheduled at a restaurant, disregard that dates food schedule only. The rest of the schedule will remain as shown
Dottie and Joe Arcaro
Dawn and L.J. Benton
Christine Beard
Vincent & Rosemarie Belmonte
Linda Lee Bietighofer
John & Pauline Brisacone
Carmela & Dick Colella
Joseph & Joan Coppolino
Dominick D’Aquino
Constance & Dominick Esposito
Edward & Deborah Lauda
Carol Leverone
Roseann Lonati
Gregory R. & Theresa Martini
Frank Masi
Eileen Moffitt
Pam and Frank Palmieri
Tony and Carol Pucci
Vicki and Santo Scacco
Joseph & Antoinette Scarimbolo
Ralph Scognamiglio
Joan Stokes
Sam Testa
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Marietta Lodge #2607
P.O. Box 669781
Marietta, GA. 30066