Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Italian Radio Hour
Episode: The Italian Americans of Los Angeles: A History with Marianna Gatto
Description: This week on The Italian Radio Hour - The Italian Americans of Los Angeles represent a very vibrant community of artists, agriculturalists, dreamers and outlaws, pioneers, and powerbrokers who have shaped every single facet of the Southern California megalopolis for two centuries but, still overlooked in both local and Italian American histories.
Marianna Gatto, historian and Executive Director of the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, brings those stories, those pioneers, those dreams alive and provides great points of reflection and comparison to understand this very varied American mosaic.
Over one hundred images, including many never before published, help...