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Paul Spadoni

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I began my career as a journalist and photojournalist for The Gateway newspaper in Gig Harbor, Washington, but after a few years, I used my on-the-job experience to become a journalism teacher. During my 31 years as a teacher, the student newspaper I advised, The Peninsula Outlook, was inducted into the scholastic journalism hall of fame. While I now manage a road maintenance business, the part-time nature of my job allows me time to pursue my life-long passion for Italy. Beginning with a trip where I tried to impersonate an Italian cousin and then through a series of follow-up visits, I gradually undertook the challenge of trying to understand both modern Italy and the old country of my ancestors. With little formal training in the methods ...more

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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

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