Family Photos

• Alfieri and Amalia Pierno (144 KB)
  Alfieri and Amalia Pierno at the wedding of their son, Diego, to Yolanda Capriotti on 9/22/1940
• A young Alfieri Pierno (75 KB)
  Alfieri Pierno - head of the sanitation band in New York
• Amalia, Alfieri, Diego, and Yolanda (95 KB)
  The wedding of Diego Pierno(second from the right)to Yolanda Capriotti. These are my maternal grandparents.
• The Pierno Sibblings (134 KB)
  From left to right - Frank, Emma, Jimmy, John, Tripoli, Tommy, Danny, Louie, the chair is for Victor - not yet born.
• A photo from Busbach (100 KB)
  "According to an inscription: Irmingard (Bayreuth Land 1932/7/8), one portrait sculpture is particularly striking. "There stands on a ball, a small girl in a long stiff dress and a collar around the tiny neck. The one hand points upwards, the other draws her small sister to her. She is turning her small head, covered by a cap, towards the little one. Our farmers know the story of this stone. A long time ago, a strict and hard pastor's wife sent her children down to Unteren Muhle. They were to get bread, one of those huge loaves. On the way home, the children had to cross over a narrow unsteady footbridge. The heavy load of bread slipeed from their childish hands and fell into the Busbach. The children leaned over the water, lost their balance, and drowned. In bitter regret, the mother had the stone erected for the children and had the breadloaf placed under the children's forms, as the cause of their misfortune."