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Carlo Antinucci, Pietro Sangiorgi and Craig Bazzi, participate in the Italian Conversation Nights at the Silver Falls Library. Melissa Wagoner

La vita è Bella – Shared Italian heritage brings people together

By Melissa Wagoner Growing up, Craig Bazzi’s grandparents – immigrants from Northern Italy – spoke mostly Italian, as did their neighbors. “But it wasn’t spoken in our home,” Bazzi recalled. And so, the language wasn’t something he ever learned. Then, as an adult, he took a trip to Italy with his wife, to reconnect with distant relatives and to see […]