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Good Friday Procession in Carroll Gardens.
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Good Friday Procession in Carrol Gardens on April 2nd, 2010.
Italian immigrants from Mola di Bari have been doing this procession every year since 1948. They all came 60 years ago from the same small fishing village in the deep south of Italy. Many families moved away from Brooklyn but they all come every year. They were happy to speak to me in Italian, but when they spoke their dialect among themselves I could not really understand what they were talking about.
I ran into Mr. Buddy Scotto that owns a succesful funeral home. He grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930 from Sicilian immigrants. His parents did not teach him Italian as they wanted to assimilate. At the time there was a lot of racism against the Irish, Italians and Jews.
Outside the church the old Italians from Mola were joking saying that Mr Scotto is not Italian, he is a Sicilian.
I went to the social club on Court st. You could only be a member if you were from Mola di Bari or Puglia I remember someone told me 3 years ago.
The procession looked like something frozen in time. All the women were dressed in black and they were chanting prayers while walking with a candle in their hands. It looked like a funeral from another era.
