EVENTS

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AUTHOR TESSA FLOREANO

October 19th, 6:30-8:00pm - Tualatin Library

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Join Italian Portland 🇮🇹 to meet local author and community historian Tessa Floreano. Pre-order your book, Italians in the Pacific Northwest, and bring it with you to have it signed by the author!


Tessa draws primarily on unpublished images, stories, and memorabilia from the Italian American community in three Pacific Northwest states. Tessa is a dual Italian-Canadian married to an American, who is interested in exploring history, and chose this book as a way to honor fellow Italians in her adopted homeland.


SYNOPSIS

From hardscrabble days as homesteaders and farmers in the 1880s to becoming successful entrepreneurs of the postwar boom generation, Italian immigrants settled and later thrived in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Italians labored in several industries including railway tie hacking, coal mining, logging, canning salmon, terra-cotta and brick manufacturing, truck farms, and grocery stores. They also contributed to inventions from the collapsible crab pot to the atomic bomb, the vaudeville circuit, the Pellegrini bean, and one-of-a-kind accordions. It is the author's hope that this book highlights the contributions of many Pacific Northwest Italians, known and unknown.


ITALIAN PORTLAND BOOK CLUB


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The Italian Portland Book Club is an 🇮🇹 Italian themed book club where we will read books written in English with Italian themes. The book club will be held via Zoom on the second Thursday of each month from 6:30-7:30pm. Zoom links to be sent prior to each meeting.


ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP


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Join Italian Portland's Italian Language Conversation Group. We are very fortunate to have Ryane Sergent an instructor at Scuola Italiana di Portland to lead this group. Meetings will be held monthly at the Ledding Library in Milwaukie. The group will meet from 6-8pm the last Monday of each month. 


ITALIAN SOCIAL GROUP 


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for a monthly Italian Social Group meet-up to enjoy a sense of community and socialize with your Italian amici and all who are interested in Italian culture! This will be held the first Monday of each month from 6:30-8:30pm in the private meeting room at New Seasons Market in Tualatin. 7703 SW Nyberg St, Tualatin, OR 97062