Articles and videos about Sicilian influence still felt in Tampa generations after first immigrants arrived to work in cigar factories on FOX 13 Tampa Bay.
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.