Kferlita

1963 Birthday Party of all the cousins at the Tagliarini Orange Grove in Temple Terrace, Florida along Hillsborough River. Party Games included "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" and "Musical Chairs". [Filmed by Joe Ficarrotta]

Joe Ficarrotta recorded his aunt and cousins at the Ferlita house in South Tampa. The matriarchs of the Ferlita family owned and operated the Ferlita Macaroni Factory in Ybor City. Today the old factory building is Casa Santo Stefano Italian Restaurant. For Joe, later as an adult he turned his hobby of photography into a career to become the Director of Photography at NASA.

Family home movies from 1981 during visits to Wesson, Mississippi. Visiting the grandparent's farm and enjoying family gatherings together from a shrimp boil to snapping green beans grown in the garden.

A Cuban father creates a short film in 1944 to remember the times from the birth through his early years of the family's first child.