Today is the 50th anniversary of our families arrival at Port of New York City, US with the Ocean Liner Leonardo Da Vinci. What follows is some things I found on the ship and some saved photos.
History
Anniversary of Nova Scotia – Alessandro Cerrato
Alessandro Cerrato (9422)
November 28, 2011 I am waiting at Babbo’s to leave for the flight back to Florida. I pick up the book given to him for his birthday just a few months ago on the sinking of the Nova Scotia and the first line reads: “28 Novembre 1942 una tragedia a mare”. I began to read….the story of my grandfathers death at sea exactly 69 years later!!! I became interested in finding out more and what follows is my research on this tragedy and my tribute to him as I try to think and feel what he must have gone through… God Bless Him!!
“I am sorry… I am terribly sorry…. I will radio Berlin… Help will come…. Be brave.” – (Kapitanleutnant Robert Gysae – U-Boat’s commander)
The American Indian
Stith Thompson, a Distinguished Professor of English and Folklore at Indiana University, anthologized these Native American tales from the ethnographic literature. His chief contribution to the field was his ‘Motif-Index of Folk Literature’, which is a cross-cultural index of themes that occur in folktales. Continue reading
War is over! if you want it
Dorothy Day
On May 1, 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, The Catholic Worker newspaper made its debut with a first issue of twenty-five hundred copies. Dorothy Day and a few others hawked the paper in Union Square for a penny a copy (still the price) to passersby.
The Catholic Worker Movement is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person. Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms. Continue reading
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