[Critique Group 2] Leonard's comments on Alice's work

[Leonard Tuchyner]

This piece about your family’s emigration from Itally to the new world is a piece ofAmerican history

. +It tells of the overall triumph  in this country, 

and the dedication and courage it took toundergo the adventure . 

Although there were losses , 

the overwhelming experience of the sojourn  was success 

in which they thrived and shared their goodfortune. 

There are lots of  immigrant stories to be told , 

but the one of the fullfillment  of the American dream  is one of the greatest. 

I especially liked the part of the statue ofliberty winking at yur  grandmother. 

I like the way you traced the history geologically through the journey.

 

 

Ellis Island Gratitude

 

acrosticpoem for the Fourth of July, by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

 

Elizabeth—“Liza, in Italian—danced aboard theship

La Lorraine that brought her and so many othersto a new country.

Leaving all that was known to her behind,

Italy’s daughter came through Ellis Island;

Statue of Liberty must have winked at mygrandmother as she passed by.

 

Indiana was her destination.

Soon she married James, settled in a small ruralHoosier community.

Like my paternal grandparents, my maternalgrandparents

Answered the call to a new land to establishhope and a new home.

Never can I fully appreciate their braveness,

Determination to embrace a new nation—the USA.

 

Gratitude to Ellis Island that allowed thesefour to

Realize a dream and a journey—Domenica andMartino, Liza and James.

All four experienced hardships, but wereabundantly blessed.

Take a chance?  Did they take anenormous chance?

Indiana was where they planted and grew theirdreams.

Two sons and one daughter were lost, but fivesons and four daughters survived and flourished.

Under those Hoosier skies and wise eyes,

Destiny of two families from the Levone Valleyof Northern Italy

Eternally give gratitude to this grand land thatour grandparents adopted.

 

--Looking forward to our Sixth Anniversarygathering on July 28!
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