Two Centuries to Freedom

In 1910, teenagers Julio and Amerigo Menicucci were among the early twentieth century wave of Italians from the Lucca Province who migrated to the United States. As adults, they established their homes and their families in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The story begins in the late 1700s in Lucca, Italy, at the foothills of the Apennines, where the Menicucci family had lived for many generations. Their saga reveals new history. Learn how an Italian started the city's first Gas War and how another men