Happy New Year!
I’ve been busy this holiday season promoting my new book and researching articles. I plan to bring you some more of the earliest Mafia history of Kansas City. Stay tuned.
This month, I’ll be appearing at Forbes Library in Northampton, MA to talk about my latest book, Pasqualina: The Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts. Join me on Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 6:30PM in the Coolidge Museum inside Forbes and learn how
The legacy of Pasqualina Albano Siniscalchi Miranda might have been buried forever.
Most of her relatives would have preferred that. They destroyed their photographs of her because her legacy as a bootlegger was an embarrassment. But her story was too important to be lost forever.
- Learn how Pasqualina’s story has been preserved and more fully told for future generations.
- Appreciate the truly historic role she held as an Italian woman in control of a criminal gang in Springfield’s South End during Prohibition.
- Gain a deeper understanding of how Springfield’s troubled history and the story told in Pasqualina are two sides of the same tale.
Copies of Pasqualina and In Our Blood will be available for sale and signing at the event.
Event: https://forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/15680319
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