When we think of Italian immigration to the US,  our thoughts immediately go to the sunny shores and hills of Southern Italy and we’re not making a mistake, really: of the 9 million people who arrived to America from the  Belpaese between 1880 and  1915, about 70% was from the  South. 

But believing that Northerners weren’t interested in realizing their very own American Dream would be wrong. Towards the end of the 19th century, more and more families  from Veneto, Piemonte and Friuli Venezia-Giulia especially, made their way to the other side of the pond  and  started a new life.