http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2012/02/18/pigeon-holed/ Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit... Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2012/02/18/pigeon-holed/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:49:38 +0000 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/?p=2738#comment-680 Rita: or hard labor. My people ended up in steel mills in Youngstown. Although one side of the family had a brewery in Louisville, not sure which one though.

]]> http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2012/02/18/pigeon-holed/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:42:22 +0000 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/?p=2738#comment-679 That first generation had no choice. They came over here as adults with children or at the very least older teens and young twenties and had no time to get an education. They had to find a way to support themselves immediately. Since most of them spoke little to no English, private business was really their only option.

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