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Playwrights Workshop Readings: [An Untitled History of the Two-Story Home at 15 Lee St., Federal Hill, Providence, RI-- From the Year of Our Lord 1898 Through 2017; and the Descendants of Rosa De Lucia Who've Lived There] 
by Christopher Lysik '24

In 1898, Rosa de Lucia boards a steamship and leaves her native Italy to join her husband in the burgeoning Italian district of Providence, RI— only to find herself an outsider in a city dominated by the Irish and Yankee elites. So... What changes for the De Lucia Family over the next century? Welp, a whole hell of a lot…

Please be advised this reading contains brief moments of racism, both towards and by individuals considered white by today's standards.

This reading is free and open to all.

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