Sicilian influence still felt in Tampa generations after first immigrants arrived to work in cigar factories

Many Tampa doctors, lawyers, politicians, and community members can trace their roots back to a city in Sicily and ancestors who immigrated to the United States more than a century ago, whose lives were vastly different as they struggled in a new country. Tampa native Jeannette Tamborello has done a lot of research on her grandparents from Sicily. Family members and their friends from Sicily worked in Tampa’s cigar factories.

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