(Editor’s Note: This story was recently published in the Pittsburg Morning Sun by Holly Swigart in her column “History’s Hidden Gems. Members of the Ferraro family lived in Cherokee County for generation including Mike Ferrero Sr., and Mike Ferrero, Jr., both teachers at Columbus High School.)
Calabria, the toe of the boot, is a lovely area in southern Italy with plenty of beaches and scenic mountain vistas. Today it might be a vacation destination, but in 1901, thousands of people were trying to escape what had become a desperate situation. At that time, Italy was still a young nation struggling to bring together all of the kingdoms and city states, which had existed and operated in...
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