• A Five-Year-Old’s Journey to America, Lady Liberty, and Ellis Island

    ___________________________________________________________ Imagine you are a five-year-old child and your Italian father has put you on a boat bound for America. Your mother is murdered–hit over the head with an axe because she had uncovered a smuggling scheme that was taking place on ships–and you, as a two-year-old, are with her at the time of the brutality. You somehow get away and are later found and returned home. At your fifth year of age, your father decides to send you off, hoping for a better life for you. And, he believes that new life will be in America, the land of liberty and dreams. Your name is Angelina Carolonza and you…