Last month, my mother, Giuseppina “Pina” Conigliaro, passed away after a short illness, a complication of a condition that she had been dealing with for more than 20 years. She was an amazing woman who lived the American dream—she immigrated to the United States in November 1954 from Ribera, Sicily, at the age of 18 with her mother, older sister, and younger brother. Because of the devastation of World War II and the hard life that followed, she never attended formal school … Download the full article below.