My grandmother’s surname is “Vetrano,” which is a nickname taken from the Latin word “vetranus” meaning “old man.” It is a surname found mainly in Southern Italy and Sicily.
A place that I enjoy going is the city of Utica, NY, where I grew up. Upon settling the area around Fort Schuyler, a vital fort in the American Revolution, the settlers put thirteen names into a hat for consideration for the village name. The winning slip, Utica, was submitted by Erastus Clark and the village was incorporated on April 3, 1798. The name Utica was an ancient port city on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Africa in what is now Tunisia. The word “Utica” comes from the Phoenician “ˁattiq ˁuttayqah” and the Hebrew “עתיק” (pronounced “atiq”), meaning “old town.”
A place that I enjoy going is the city of Utica, NY, where I grew up. Upon settling the area around Fort Schuyler, a vital fort in the American Revolution, the settlers put thirteen names into a hat for consideration for the village name. The winning slip, Utica, was submitted by Erastus Clark and the village was incorporated on April 3, 1798. The name Utica was an ancient port city on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Africa in what is now Tunisia. The word “Utica” comes from the Phoenician “ˁattiq ˁuttayqah” and the Hebrew “עתיק” (pronounced “atiq”), meaning “old town.”