Wrap your head around this: For 113 years, the Italian language newspaper Il Pensiero has been documenting Saint Louis' Italian-American community's stories. One hundred and thirteen years!
In that time. the Missouri Intelligencer has gone out of business. As has the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Sun. Heck, even the self-proclaimed, "World's Softest Newspaper," The Bugle folded.
In fact, the only other newspaper remaning in St. Louis is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. All the rest are gone. Click here for a link to the Il Pensiero website.
In fact, the year this paper first published, the 1904 World's Fair was in full swing, and this also was the last time the Olympics were held in St. Louis.
As we know, ice cream cones and hot dogs were barely invented. Radar, color photography and the X-ray machine made their debuts the same year as Il Pensiero. It is a survivor.
This paper not only documents local goings on in both Italian and English, it sprinkles in a bit of news and opinion from "The Old Country," for good measure.
Il Pensiero serves not only as link to the past...but a link to a community.
Dave and I have known the Editor of the paper for years!! We affectionately call him Uncle Tony!!
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