My great-grandfather, Luigi Licciardi, was a founding member and the first secretary of the Cleveland Chapter of the Dante Alighieri Society. (He is pictured here standing, third from the left - next to the bust). This short news article from The Cleveland Plain Dealer describes the establishment of this group in 1934.
Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 15 Apr 1934
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