This week’s episode features stories about Italian-Americans in the garment factories of Westchester. Gerri Napolitano discusses her family’s connection to two sweatshops in White Plains, while Kristin McGuinness shares memories and stories of her grandparents’ factory in Mt. Vernon. Both interviews were recorded at the City Center in White Plains on February 12, 2020.
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Sewing Community is part of ArtsWestchester's Folk Arts Program, made possible in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
07/22/20 • 9 min
Sewing Community - Gerri Napolitano and Kristin McGuinness
Transcript
1:30 My name is Gerri Napolitano. I was born in White Plains, grew up in Silver Lake, and came back to live in White Plains now. My mother’s family has been in White Plains since the late 1800s. Along with a number of other Italian families in the area, most of them came from the same village in Italy, called Serracapriola. My great-grandmother came here as a widow with three little girls. My grandmother grew up...my grandmother and her sisters went to school at Good Council, which was not a
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