Introduction: From reluctant migrants to birds of passage -- 1. Mountain life in the Veneto -- 2. Reluctant migrants abandon the Veneto -- 3. Destination: Massachusetts -- 4. Arresting the Padroni -- 5. The second generation -- 6. Making Americans -- 7. The 1920s -- 8. Enemy aliens or American heroes? -- 9. Suburbs and supermarkets -- Afterword.