[BCMA] FW: New Alberta History book published | The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello

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Dear BC Museums Association Members,

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NEW BC HISTORY PUBLICATION | THE RISE AND FALL OF EMILIO PICARIELLO
By Adriana Davies

The Fernie Museum and Oolichan Books is pleased to announce the publication of a new Western Canadian history book,The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello, by Adriana Davies.  Dr. Davies is Canada’s foremost Italian-Canadian historian who served as Executive Director of the Alberta Museums Association and the Heritage Community Foundation.  The book accompanies a 1,200 square foot travelling exhibit of the same name, which Is also available to museums, interpretive centres and cultural centres from 2016 to 2019.

SYNOPSIS

Emilio Picariello is a character who captures the imagination. His entrepreneurial spirit garnered him many successful legal businesses. The rising tide of Prohibition meant that bootlegging was a natural progression of “Emperor Pick's” acumen. Bootlegging put him on the wrong side of the law, however. After a failed sting operation set up by the Alberta Provincial Police, Picariello had a heated argument with Constable Stephen Lawson. Shots were fired and Lawson lost his life. Picariello and Florence Lassandro were found guilty and both were hanged in Fort Saskatchewan in 1923.  Ninety years later, historian Adriana Davies approaches the story as a cold case. While there is little doubt he was a bootlegger, she calls into question the circumstances that lead to Constable Lawson's death and if Picariello was ultimately responsible.

THE AUTHOR

Adriana A. Davies is a well-known researcher, writer, editor and poet. She is the author of From Realism to Abstraction: The Art of J.B. Taylor (2014, University of Calgary Press) and co-editor of the Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War (to be published in 2016 by the University of Calgary Press). Dr. Davies was invested into the Order of Canada in 2010 for her contribution to heritage. In 2015, she was awarded a knighthood (Cavaliere d’Italia) by the Government of Italy.

ORDERING

For individual copies by phone at 250.423.7016, ext 1, by email at info at ferniemuseum.com<mailto:info at ferniemuseum.com> or online at http://ferniemuseum.com/product/an-immigrant-story-the-rise-and-fall-of-emilio-picariello/

The book is available to museum shops in Canada through Oolichan Books in Fernie, BC; the flat sheet for the book is attached.


RON ULRICH | DIRECTOR-CURATOR
FERNIE MUSEUM AND VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE

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