da Italiana a Americana a Mount Washington: From Italian to American in Mount Washington

An image of Angela Pasquale's daughter with a family car decorated for America's bicentennial celebration in 1976.

Upon her arrival in America, Angela and her husband settled into an apartment in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh.  Rather than shirking from this new world of foreign sights and sounds before her, Angela embraced her newfound identity as a member of the American populace.  Listen as Angela describes her rationale for learning English and becoming an assimilated American citizen.