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'An Evening With My Grandparents: Stories Of My Italian-American Family'

At the Scranton Memorial Library Oct. 19, storyteller Monica Peterson shares family lore that she learned at the knees of her grandparents.

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In an event at the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library in Madison on Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m., storyteller Monica Peterson shares, 'An Evening With My Grandparents: Stories Of My Italian-American Family.'
In an event at the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library in Madison on Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m., storyteller Monica Peterson shares, 'An Evening With My Grandparents: Stories Of My Italian-American Family.' (Ellyn Santiago/Patch)

MADISON, CT — Acclaimed storyteller Monica Peterson shares fascinating family lore that she learned at the knee of her grandparents, as well as her own touching personal accounts.

In an event at the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library in Madison on Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m., Peterson shares, 'An Evening With My Grandparents: Stories Of My Italian-American Family.'

Stories will include the romantic tale of how her grandmother’s aristocratic parents met in their native Italy, fell in love, lost a fortune, and immigrated to the United States. And the thrilling account of her grandfather’s brother Tony and his fight against Fascism in the 1920s and ’30s. And many more.

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