Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. January 11, 1946
Birthday: January 11
If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.
source: Janet Campbell Hale (1998). “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter”, p.20, University of Arizona Press
topic: Country, Italian, America, Italian Culture