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Paul (Paulino) Flaim
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Paul Flaim was born in Tregiovo, Val di Non (Italy) in 1929. Paul, the son of Daniele Flaim and Maddalena Micheli, emigrated to America in 1947. In America, he worked as a stonemason in Roanoke, VA and Baltimore, MD. While he was working in Baltimore, Paul attended evening classes at Johns Hopkins Univesity and received a degrees in Economics. From 1962 to 1994 he worked as a labor force economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC. Paul, the father of Eric and John Paul Flaim, is now retired and lives with his wife, Lourdes Nieves Flaim, in their home in Bowie, MD. His new hobbies are painting and writing poetry about his days in Tregiovo and the Val di Non.
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The Poetry of Paulino Flaim
Me Mare: a poem written in Nones (the dialect of the Val di Non) about Paul's mother.
Me Pare: a poem about Paul's father (written in Nones), Daniele Flaim.
El Zòbia: a short story about Paul's weekly trips to Cloz to bring his father food when he was a child.
En ziro col’agola: Paul recounts his childhood days carrying a hawk to Lauregno and Proves in an effort to blackmail chicken owners into giving him and his other friends some eggs.
Interesting Links
Paul Flaim: an article written about my father in a book on emigrants from Trentino.
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You can e-mail Paulino Flaim by clicking here.
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