In The Beginning

   My mother was the youngest of 12 children to Italian immigrant parents. Her family were the only Italians living on an all Polish street in the village of Rosewell, Ohio. Atop the mountain village of Vastogirardi, the idea of American prosperity brought both of her parents to America. My father was the only son of the loan groceria (Italian for grocery store) in the same village located near the Blue Shaft coal mine. His genitori (parents), were both immigrants from the Lago Maggiore (Lake Major) area in Northern Italy. His father was a speculator. He was no coal miner and he knew it.
     The Klondike, later renamed Rosewell, is located about six miles outside of New Philadelphia, Ohio. It was first comprise of mainly Italian and Polish immigrants who settled to work in the local coal mines. The reason why immigrants settled in the village and called it the Klondike is because it was like for them as the great Alaska Klondike gold rush was for others in history. Instead of gold, they  were searching for coal.
    My father's father. was not the humble man to work in the coal mines. Instead, he preferred to be a speculator and represent those coal miners who were immigrants and settled in the village.A modern entrepreneur who gave back to his community.   My mother's father much preferred to work hard and stay humble. Seven girls and five boys for my mother's father. Two girls and one boy for my father's father.