The Last Italian Immigrant To Argentina
The Last Italian Immigrant To Argentina
Italy through the eyes of my grandfather, who left his village for Buenos Aires in 1959 but never really left.
My granfather s passport when he arrived in Argentina.
“When we got to Salerno I wanted to get off the ship, but they didn’t let me. I was there and I had to stay on, they said. And so I went. It took us a month to get to Buenos Aires.”
My grandfather’s voice on the phone was distant, as I cycled down to the city center on a crisp autumn afternoon in Cambridge. Every time we got on the phone he would start reminiscing about his experience as an Italian immigrant in Argentina the last Italian who left for South America, as he mockingly called himself.