The Daily Bulletin Archive

The conference Dear America! The Italian Immigrant Experience in Buffalo and the Thomas Sgovio Storyopens Friday, September 25, with a reception at 5:00 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library. Saturday’s conference—which takes place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Classroom Building C122—will address immigration, labor activities among Buffalo’s working classes, and Sgovio’s life story, which personifies the complexity of the immigrant experience as well as one man’s journey through the Soviet Gulag and back to the United States.

The conference accompanies the Dear America! exhibition, on view in E. H. Butler Library through September. The exhibition opened in June at an annual conference in Bari, Italy, attracting librarians, archivists, and historians from almost a dozen countries, including Russia. Both events are free and open to the public.