By Emma Kaden “And the shot heard ’round the world / Was the start of the Revolution…” —Schoolhouse Rock!, “The Shot Heard Round The World” So many Americans grew up with the sound of Schoolhouse Rock!, the lyrics of “Conjunction
What Is an American?

We celebrate July Fourth as the day the Declaration of Independence created the United States. But in my heart I also honor July 15. On that day in 1930 Giustino DiCamillo, my grandfather, arrived here with my grandma, aunts and