Kindred Spirits

The Turks, Italians, Railroads, and Albany, New York

What one can discover from a pile of old photographs - born in Castroreale Messina

Never seen by the family - Celestino, Hugo, and Bruno Zucchelli, 1919, near Queens, New York

The Zucchelli Family of Albany, New York - a northern Italian family, supported by Remo Zucchelli, who opened and operated the only professional knife-grinding business in the region. It operated for over fifty years. The family hails from an interesting place - Pranzo, Tenno, Trentio in northern Italy. People of the region considered these Italians to be Austrians. http://www.comune.tenno.tn.it/en/culture/history.asp