CEO OF ITALY'S LARGEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
CORPORATION TO OPEN PHOTO EXHIBITION DEPICTING 
ITALIAN EMIGRATION AT OCT. 24 CEREMONIES AT 
STATEN ISLAND'S GARIBALDI-MEUCCI MUSEUM

Italy-Italy Magazine Sponsors Exhibition on Loan from Italian-American Academy in Rome

STATEN ISLAND, NY, Oct. 18 -- The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum of Staten Island will  host a photography exhibition about Italian emigration to the United States, on loan from the Italian-American Academy in Rome, and co-sponsored by Italy-Italy Magazine.

The show covers the period spanning the beginning of the great migration (at the end of the 19th Century) to the years following the end of World War II.

"This is an especially compelling exhibition because it reminds us that in our world then and now we are collectively people who are always searching for a better life," says Carmen Gallo, President of the Italian American Network that is currently involved in extensive research on the Italian migration.

Departures, the anguish of the long journey, the controls and checks at Ellis Island, life in the new neighborhood and the slow integration into a new community are all subjects dealt with in these photos. Amidst other documents, the exhibition also features the scores of Italian songs published in New York at the time of the great migration.

The interesting and rare photos belonging to the museum itself are also part of the exhibit, representing different moments in the life of Antonio Meucci, the "True Inventor of the Telephone," and Giuseppe Garibaldi, his famed, exiled houseguest.

At 4 p.m. on Oct. 24 Tommaso Pompei, CEO and founder of Wind Italia, the
largest telecommunications corporation in Italy, will be a guest at the museum and will honor the memory and accomplishments of Antonio Meucci and his great invention. 

In ceremony, he will place a wreath on the grave of Antonio Meucci in the garden of the little house, today the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, where the inventor carried out his experiments on the telephone, while offering safe-harbor to General Garibaldi just
before his successful liberation of Italy.

The Museum is located at 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305.
Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; admission is
$3.  The event on Oct. 24 is free and open to the public. Please
R.S.V.P. to 718.442.1608, or GMMinfo@aol.com.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Sara Widness
646-602-7010
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