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Esposito, Frank -- 1

NM: This is an interview with Mr. -Oem-�n�c Esposito of 19 Starr
Avenue, Danbury, Conn., conducted in his home by Nancy Morris.
Date:
Age: 93
Born: San Bernardo, De Colld,ltura Region, Calabria, Italy.
Well, off and running, so -- Okay, I don't know what-H:

maybe you ought to got that--that was his father's name, my
brother's name, but that was his father's name.

Remember the

time when you told her, Dad, she asked a few questions about
your father's name and stuff?
NM:

That's where she got the name--

That's my husband's name, Frank, so now I 'll be able to remember
that, I guess.

Okay, do you mind going right back to Italy?

Back to Calabria?
�E:

Yes.

NM:

Good.

Okay.

Well, let's start right at the beginning.

Do

you remember when you came to America?
19 hundred and three.

�E:

Yes.

NM:

And how old were you?

.DE:

Eleven or twelve only.

NM:

Do you remember--well, you lived in Calabria--do you remember
what it was like there?

_DE:

Well, it was nice.

I worked with my father on the farm.

take care few sheeps we had. I watch couple cow.

I

Because I

wasn't old enough to dig--to work beside him, so I done them
little cords (?)
NM:

What made the decision to come to America?

Do you remember

anything about that?
.DE:

Well, you see, father, every couple of years he would come.
See, he was a citizen.

He come here two, three years and he

go back home, stay to couple years or so.
here again.

Then he come back