St. Anthony Festival in Little Italy stays dry just long enough
By Paul McMullen One-hundred and 12 years after newcomers to America prayed to St. Anthony of Padua to intercede in the face of impending disaster, Little Italy caught another break in the weather June 5. Heavy rain in the forecast didn't arrive until the Feast of St. Anthony Italian Festival was in its closing hours, well after a rel...
Il Gei Award consegnato a Napolitano
WASHINGTON. In occasione della sua visita a Washington il presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano ha ricevuto il "Gei Award 2013", il prestigioso premio del Gruppo Esponenti Italiani, che gli è stato consegnato dal presidente del Gei, Lucio Caputo "in segno di riconoscimento e di grandissimo apprezzamento per tutta l'attività da Lei svolta n...
Lido Civic Club of Washington DC to Honor Scholarship Recipients at Annual Awards Event
On June 20, 2013, the Lido Civic Club, through its charitable scholarship foundation, the Lido Civic Club Charities, Inc., will award tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships to worthy high school seniors of Italian descent bound for college. The annual Scholarship Award Recipient Reception will be held at the spectacular Italian Embassy locate...
Dibattito: "Elezioni Comites" - 19 dicembre 2014
Presentazione e moderazione del dibattito: Marco Circelli, Direttore Esecutivo Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia. Ospiti annunciati: Carmine Berardi (Forza Italia), Gabriella Romani (Innovitalia) e Pasquale Nestico (Uniti per un Futuro Migliore) Il dibattito è aperto a tutta la ci...
Italian American Song
The Italian American population numbers more than fourteen million through the fourth generation. The largest wave of immigrants (around four million) arrived in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century. The majority hailed from the largely overpopulated and poor central and southern parts of Italy,...
Mt. St. Peter draws crowds with 34th annual Festa Italiana in New Kensington
By Joyce Hanz Everyone is Italian at the 34th annual Festa Italiana, where the first night kicked off under beautiful clear blue skies and big crowds Thursday. The savory aromas of authentic Italian fare and a multitude of Italian flags waving in the breeze welcomed Italian festival-goers at Mt. St. Peter's Parish in New Kensington. ...
West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival returning for 37th year
By Angelee Wiley Tyler Terango waits all year for one weekend to arrive. That weekend is in September when the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival returns to Clarksburg. This year will be the 37th year for the festival, and Terango, who is the chairman of the board for the event, said it amazes him how the event continues to...
Spring 2016 Inserra calendar: First program on Italians in America (Feb. 8)
The Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University is pleased to invite you to the Spring 2016 Inserra Chair calendar of cultural programs and educational initiatives in Italian and Italian American Studies. The calendar includes round tables, exhibits, as well as contests and international projects for students...
Crowd fills up Italian Festival
by Crissy Clutter The 34th annual Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival is underway in downtown Wheeling. The crowd is getting bigger as more and more people finish work this Friday evening and head for Italian wine, food, music and more. News9 has been at the festival since it began at noon, and a big crowd has been consis...
Italia-Usa: Anno Cultura, poesie e fotografie italiane su bus di Washington DC
Piccola rivoluzione in corso su circa 200 autobus di Washington. Oltre ai consueti avvisi pubblicitari, i viaggiatori ora possono leggere i versi in italiano, tradotti in inglese, di alcuni dei piu' celebri poeti italiani: Leopardi, Pasolini, Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Rosselli, Pavese, Luzi, Foscolo, Penna, Lorenzo de' Medici e Montale faranno per tre...
Italians In America -- William Paca and the American Revolution
The official seal of the state of Maryland reads Fatti, Maschii, Parola Femine, which is Italian for "Manly Deeds, Womanly Words." It is the only state motto written in Italian, and Maryland also was the only state that was home to a signer of the Declaration of Independence who was of Italian heritage. William Paca's ancestors came to America dur...
New UNICO Delmarva Chapter meets to celebrate Italian heritage
The newest chapter of UNICO National in Delaware, the Delmarva Chapter, held a meeting at the home of president David Jones and wife Christine on March 12. The chapter, chartered in November 2012 at an installation dinner at Ristorante Luca in Millsboro, was attended by national officers from California, Connecticut and New Jersey and by l...