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Audio Recording Interview with Mary Pacente, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Interview with Mary Pacente, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Mary Pacente, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Names

  • Mathias, Elizabeth (Collector)
  • Pacente, Mary (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, May 11, 1977

Headings

  • -  Italian Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Mary Pacente
  • -  Part 1 of a 2-part interview with Mary Pacente about life and traditions in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood and among those with Sicilian heritage; about her parents, first lived in Monessen PA then came to Chicago in the 1920s, father named Vincenzo Panipinto (Panipento?), mother Josephine; father worked for the Chicago Surface Lines (streetcars); first lived at 628 S. May St, then at 1150 Vernon Park Place; Pacente has been in neighborhood for 50 years; about how her mother took in people in need; religious processions in the neighborhood, on and near what was then called Vernon Park (now Arrigo Park), nicknamed “peanut park” because of the shape of the walkway when seen from above; traditions are still alive, e.g., bocce ball and the tarantella dance; about changes in the neighborhood in recent time; Sicilian (and Italian) tradition of basil growing, one person start a plant and cutting are distributed to all family members.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20731a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0749
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T207-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Mathias, Elizabeth, and Mary Pacente. Interview with Mary Pacente, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20731a/.

APA citation style:

Mathias, E. & Pacente, M. (1977) Interview with Mary Pacente, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20731a/.

MLA citation style:

Mathias, Elizabeth, and Mary Pacente. Interview with Mary Pacente, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20731a/>.