26 episodes

Marco Zaza has been telling family stories—funny or sad or nostalgic stories—at various dinner tables for over half a century now. These are tales that reveal one family's experience as immigrant- and first-generation Italian-Americans. With this podcast Marco shares these entertaining memories with a broader audience. Now illuminated with conversations that add details and tangential stories, the episodes elicit the laughter and tears that always resulted when he treated his family, gathered around a meal, to a sweet memory or two.

Concettina Died and Other Stories of the East Side Marco Zaza and David Zaza

    • Society & Culture

Marco Zaza has been telling family stories—funny or sad or nostalgic stories—at various dinner tables for over half a century now. These are tales that reveal one family's experience as immigrant- and first-generation Italian-Americans. With this podcast Marco shares these entertaining memories with a broader audience. Now illuminated with conversations that add details and tangential stories, the episodes elicit the laughter and tears that always resulted when he treated his family, gathered around a meal, to a sweet memory or two.

    Traditions

    Traditions

    Present day. A family carries its traditions forward.

    • 46 min
    Bloopers and Outtakes

    Bloopers and Outtakes

    2021. A father and son encounter some problems, some laughter, and some ribald songs while recording a podcast.

    • 10 min
    Birthday Story

    Birthday Story

    1938. A baby boy is born in a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio.

    • 19 min
    Beginning a New Life: Corrado LoBasso

    Beginning a New Life: Corrado LoBasso

    1920. A teenage boy enters the United States on his cousin's passport.

    • 38 min
    Immigration Laws?

    Immigration Laws?

    c. 1926. An Italian immigrant secures his American citizenship with three bottles of booze and a midnight meeting.

    • 15 min
    Beginning a New Life: Gaetano Zaza

    Beginning a New Life: Gaetano Zaza

    1913. A young man begins a journey that will eventually result in a new family in a new land.

    • 23 min

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