Airman Third Class News Today

An Alabama farmer spent some of the little money that he had to help members of his community to pay for their medical bills.

The Aricos were a typical Italian-Catholic family living in Barrington in the 1950s.  Mary and Anthony — called Tony — brought their children up in a modest home on Maple Avenue, just a stone’s throw away from the Barrington Steam Brick Company.  Many of the company’s 200 workers had been recruited from Italy and Mary’s father had worked there as a foreman.  Although the brickyard closed down in the 1940s, the Italian enclave that had sprung up around the site continued to flouri...