Dr. Elizabeth Turner joins Italian American Stories to share how her family’s journey from Italy to America inspired Ciao Bambino, a musical and novella celebrating family, heritage, music, and the courage to begin again.

After surviving the Ludlow Massacre, Italian American mother Mary Petrucci found the courage to tell the world about the children she lost. Discover her heartbreaking story of family, sacrifice, and determination during one of the darkest events in Colorado history.

Follow the Marasco family’s journey from Italy to Grand Junction, Colorado—a powerful story of sacrifice, discrimination, heartbreak, resilience, and the determination to build a better life in America.

Long before Grand Junction became the city we know today, an Italian immigrant named Nunzio Grasso helped shape Western Colorado—one stone at a time. Discover the remarkable story of the Italian stonemason whose craftsmanship still stands more than a century later.

What started as a search for family history became a life-changing journey. Kris Rini shares how researching his Italian roots led to finding relatives in Calabria, restoring his family's original surname, and ultimately earning Italian citizenship.

In 1911, Sicilian immigrant Concetto Formica was murdered while working as a musician with a traveling carnival in North Carolina. What happened next is one of the strangest stories we've ever researched. His embalmed body remained in a funeral home's garage for 61 years, where generations of locals came to know him as "The Italian Mummy." Join Stephanie and Sandy as they revisit this remarkable true story with new research and fresh conversation.

In 1906 Denver, a young Italian immigrant named Carmelina Fiorino shot and killed her husband—but was it murder or self-defense? This shocking case of love, control, and survival captivated the city and still raises questions today.