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Concettina Died and Other Stories of the East Side

Concettina Died and Other Stories of the East Side

By: Marco Zaza and David Zaza
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 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.2021 David Zaza Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • Traditions

    Traditions
    Dec 7 2021

    "In Italy, the Nativity was celebrated by building a large crèche, surrounded by a village, filling a stocking with fruit and nuts and having wonderful elborate meals on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas Day. Our family continued those traditions in America, except the crèche was smaller and a Christmas tree was added...."

    Marco brings the family into the present—through past holidays, new forms of celebration, and the ongoing joy of traditions old and new.
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    47 mins
  • Bloopers and Outtakes

    Bloopers and Outtakes
    Dec 4 2021

    Marco sings an offensive slur for Italians, David shrieks a line from Singing In The Rain, Marie's kitchen apparently explodes. These are bloopers and outtakes from the wildly popular Italian-American podcast that everyone wants to be a part of. Except Stanley Tucci, for some reason.
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    11 mins
  • Birthday Story

    Birthday Story
    Nov 30 2021

    "She placed only a nickle bet on the number Papa had chosen, and put 95 cents into her small coin purse to use at the grocery store. She never made it to the store though, because she went into labor, and within hours was in the hospital, giving birth to a son—namely, me."

    Marco came into this world as a good-luck charm for his father, and with a lesson in frugality from his mother.
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    19 mins
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