by Jerry Carbone | Jul 10, 2023 | News
In August of 1920 women received the right to vote through the passage of the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution and could vote in the presidential election in November 1920. There were 144 women of color living in Vermont who were eligible. In Windham...
by Jerry Carbone | May 6, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
First, a brief recap of the events. On the evening of April 14 ,1907, in the coal camp of Carneyville, Wyoming, near the bustling western city of Sheridan, tensions were running high after a bet on a dog fight between two groups of miners. A fight broke out that...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 11, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
My previous posts discussed the fight that erupted between Italian and American miners in the Carneyville coal-camp seven miles from the town of Sheridan, Wyoming. There was one man killed, James Hughey; Charles Fuller was severely injured; and Dan Reynolds was...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 6, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News, Yellow journalism
As we have seen in the previous post, four Italians were arrested and charged in the knife-affray of the evening of 14 April 1907 in the coal-camp of Carneyville, Wyoming. They were my great uncles, BrunoAntonio Carbone and Domenico Carbone; plus two other Italian...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 3, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
The term “dago” is a corruption of Diego, a Spanish equivalent of James. It has been applied as a generic proper name to Spaniards. A name originally given in the south-western section of the United States to a man of Spanish parentage; now extended to...
by Jerry Carbone | Mar 31, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
May 2020 was the 125th anniversary of the first ancestor of my family to immigrate to the United States. Domenico Carbone (1878-1967), middle in the photo, was the first born son of Rocco Carbone (1837-1942) and Maria Perri (1856-1916) of Cirella, Reggio di...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 18, 2019 | Brattleboro history, News
The last footnote, 162 (yes that is 162 footnotes in a 41 page article) of this scholarly essay in Winter/Spring issue of Vermont History, mentions a map, which is “…the first cartographic effort utilizing the caption “State of Vermont” to represent the...
by Jerry Carbone | Feb 1, 2019 | News
Highway during blizzard near Brattleboro Vermont 1941. The Library of Congress digital collections are not to be missed. Subscribe to one or several of the 93 different blogs or services from the LoC. They range from General News, Preservation News, Folklife News and...
by Jerry Carbone | Jan 29, 2019 | News
Wesselhoeft Water Cure. Photograph 1869?-1890? by D. A. Henry. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. You may recall over the past several years I had this itch to document all of the visitors to the Wesselhoeft Water Cure whose names, dates, and residence were...
by Jerry Carbone | Jul 3, 2018 | Italian Genealogy, News
As we know from the recent headlines, immigrants to this country are being met with something other than open arms. And we know from the historical record this treatment is not atypical. The immigrants of the past century had no less a perilous journey, and once they...
