Marietta working in the garden

Savoy cabbage

Eggplant

Peppers are producing in abundance

Roma beans remain on the vine to mature and dry to save for seed for next season

Late season fruits such as pears, grapes and figs are beginning to ripen.

Marietta rests under the grape arbor which is now filled with sweet, ripe Concord grapes.

Concord grapes hang over head

White fig

Marietta picked these figs, some of which had brown blemishes on the skin. She explained that this was due to rain during the final stage of ripening. Figs are sensitive to water at this stage. She peeled the skin and the fig beneath was undamaged and delicious.

Netting covers this fig tree to prevent birds from eating the ripening fruit.

This is a small, very hot peppers that Marietta grows in pots. As it matures it changes to various shades of reds and oranges.

Marietta shared family photos and memories with the documentation committee. Here she is showing photos of her parents.

This is a photo taken of Marietta and her young daughter on the ship to America in 1963. At age 27, Marietta left Italy with her two children, expecting a third, to meet her husband who had been living and working in America.

As a young man, her father came to America to find work to support his family who remained in Italy. This was a common practice in the early 1900's. He found camaraderie with other Italian men who were also here working by joining the local Italian band.