This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/203.2 Message Board Post: I grew up in Westerly. Went to school with a Thomas Turano. I think his father's name might have been Dominic. Tom would have been born 1949+/-. I lost track of him for awhile, then found him again. If you think there might be a connection, let me know. I will see if I can find his phone number. Gary Parkinson

R.E.: Westerly RI Italo-American Community Dear RI Washington County List Members; Cousins and Adopted Cousins, Can anyone out there give me an idea of what the history of the Italo-American community in Westerly is? As a "Swamper"...who happens to speak Italian...(it's a story in itself...)...for some time I've been aware of a community of what I believe to be Neapolitan and Sicilian immigrants from perhaps before the 1920s, in the Westerly area....and just don't know much about them, and would like very much to understand them better, and their role in the area(kind of the way I feel about the Narragansetts and the Niantics...don't know half enough about them, and yet....they're an essential part of the region's history, so I'd love to hear/know their side of the story!) (...and if anyone cares to...throw in a few recipes off-list, please!) Appreciatively, Barry Hale Browning (Browning, Tucker, Tucker, Tucker...Larkin, Card, Whaley, Congdon, Clarke, Ball, Hall, Burdick, Cross, Gard(i)ner, North(r)up, Greene, Allen, Hoxie, Babcock, Webster, Kenyon, Acres, Crandall, Austin, Sweet, Kenyon, Havens, Sherman, Watson, Reynolds, Hazard, Smith, Weeden, Knowles, Updyke, Gorton, Williams, Eldred, Rose, Mott, Cole, (etc., etc., etc.)