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Luigi Tomassi Research Paper

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Luigi Tomassi was born and raised in a small town in Italy. He married in at 25 in March, 1960, to my now grandmother. By June he immigrated to New York for a better life in America. In doing this, he left his wife behind because of a lack of money. He also knew no English at this time, and the only people he knew there were his uncle and brother. To earn money, he became a carpenter, utilizing his most profitable skills. He also did “odd jobs” on the side. By December of the same year he had saved enough, and his wife came to live with him. Eventually Tomassi and his wife began raising their family in a town called Bedford Hills. By the time their children were in elementary school, Tomassi began taking English classes. Every evening the

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