[2]I spent a portion of today memorializing a few of the 146 victims – many of them young, Italian and Jewish immigrant women – of the 1911 Triangle Factory Fire.
I chalked their names and ages in front of their homes.
- Annie Colletti, 30 years old, 410 East 13th Street
- Annina (Pasqualicchio) Ardito, 25 years old, 509 East 13th Street
- Annie L’Abbate, 16 years old, 509 East 13th Street
- Antonietta Pasqualicchio, 16 years old, 509 East 13th Stree
At one point, two fire trucks raced down Avenue A as Henryk Górecki’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" played on my headphones.
Source URL: http://iitaly.org/magazine/focus/op-eds/article/chalking-memory
Links
[1] http://iitaly.org/files/8228fire021238008859jpg
[2] http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/7693/fabricating-women-s-histories
[3] http://rememberthetrianglefire.org
[4] http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire