20 May 2025
the immigrants with Emily Pianalto-Beshears.
Emily Pianalto-Beshears shares how Tontitown’s Italian immigrants shaped belonging in the Ozarks through labor, tradition, and memory.
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13 May 2025
the cries from the cotton field with Larry Foley.
Filmmaker Larry Foley unpacks the journey of Italian immigrants from Sunnyside Plantation to Tontitown, Arkansas—revealing a deeper story of labor, faith, and migration in the American South.
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