BY: Amanda Lindquist
At 'This Place in History,' we're at the Italian American Club of Rutland with Executive Director of the Vermont Historical Society Steve Perkins. David Cioffi and Jack Kulig gave us a tour of the club and and a history lesson, too. "100 years ago in 2014. All the immigrants that came needed a place to go and the club at the time put them all together and all their Italian heritage and had a place to come and stay. They gave them a meal and they had things to do," introduced Kulig.
"The Church was a strong influence for a lot of the immigrants.; the Poles, the Italians, the Irish, they ended up living next door to each other for the most part. Besides the Church, they needed a place to gather and socialize and this ended up being it. There were both men and women in the very beginning and I think in terms of aid, they helped themselves out socially through the club and individually through the neighborhoods, which I think was very popular back then because they were immigrants," explained Cioffi.
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