Coming to Mendocino

by Joe Scaramella (as told to Mark Scaramella in 1994), January 1, 2020   Essays, Slideshow  

People sometimes ask me if I remember the 1906 Earthquake. Not only do I remember the Big One, but, Hell, I brought it on! After leaving Northern Italy, crossing France, getting on a steamship and crossing the Atlantic in steerage and processed through Ellis Island, my younger brother John and I and my mother arrived […]