H C Rollandini brings together his family with his history of his parents immigration to the US at the turn of the 20th Century from the Trento region of Italy-Austria. Stories were passed down upon their leaving Europe never to return again. In text and photo with journalistic flair; it features his father, two brothers and two friends all arriving together and finding jobs in the coal mines of the Ohio Valley near Wheeling WVA in 1902.