Talking with… Joseph Sciorra, folklorist

In the first of a series of interviews we are doing with fascinating Brooklynites, Art of Brooklyn met with folklorist Joseph Sciorra in his Williamsburg apartment, where he told us about Italian American folk life, in the borough and beyond.  Sciorra has researched and written about religious festivals, yard shrines—even the famous Christmas lights that festoon Dyker Heights during the holidays. But he spent the most time describing nativity scenes called presepi, which integrate the f