Chicago-area Man: Augie Barberi Celebrates 107th Birthday
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The lifespan of an average American man is 78 years, but by any standard, Augie Barberi is no ordinary man.
Barberi just celebrated his 107th birthday. Born in 1912, six years before the start of World War I, he has witnessed things that many of us only learned of through history books.
He is one of five children, born to Italian immigrants Augustine and Anna. They died when he was just a child.
The Interview Girl Foundation collects STORIES and shares those stories with the world. Augie Barberi’s story is brought to you by the Chicago Tribune and part of the Interview Girl Foundation’s CHASING TIME project.
Victoria
Victoria produced the film and wrote the book, Chasing Time. Victoria is a writer as well as a high school English and social studies teacher at a magnet school. She has a BA as well as three Masters Degrees (Language and Literacy, European History, and Italian). She is fluent in Italian. Currently, she is completing her PhD in Neuroscience researching similarities between contributing factors that lead to Alzheimer's Disease as well as Autism. She loves to learn, to read, to write, to travel, everything about Italy, and to meet new people and hear their stories.
