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Carl Corry is a journalism instructor at Suffolk County Community College and freelance journalist who has held leading roles at Newsday, News 12 and Long Island Business News.
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I had long wanted to visit Sant’Andrea Apostolo dello Ionio, my father's birthplace. Though I had learned much from my grandparents, who shared with me...

31 December, 2007 /
I can't tell you whether we got the cheese into the country. We may have simply shipped it over. We may have left it for Dino and the family. We may have even left it for Nino's consumption. I CAN share a could-have-happened, might-have-happened, would-have-been-nice fictional story that the U.S. Customs office would probably object to -- if it were true, of course.
15 December, 2007 /

To my great surprise, we've had hundreds of visits to our little travel log, and a good chunk of visitors have navigated to the videos....

14 December, 2007 /

It was the night before our departure for Rome and there were two things on our minds: 1. We're going to sorely miss our Sant'Andrea family....

14 December, 2007 /

As I mentioned, Nino hinted that he had the cheese but wouldn't give it to us unless we came for lunch. We would have gone...

11 December, 2007 /

One thing about Italian drivers -- they're nuts. And if you abide by the rules, they think you're nuts. We quickly learned in our 10-hour trip...

09 December, 2007 /

I remember meeting Nino once or twice as a kid when he visited by grandparents' house. They called him "Travolta" because he often boasted about...

04 December, 2007 /

I think it was last year that Nanny and Poppy sold their share of this tract of land by the Marina -- it can't be...

30 November, 2007 /

This pecorino has a past. In the late '60s, Uncle Al, hoping that he could tame the odor, wrapped and rewrapped several round slabs Poppy had...

29 November, 2007 /
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