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The Italian American Museum cordially invites you to attend "The Alchemy of Italy" Presented by Carla Gambescia. Thursday, February 22nd, 6:30 PM. 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) New York, NY 10013 What is it about Italy? Cultural Superpower yet merely a mountainous Mediterranean peninsula, Italy has exerted an outsized f...

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Some authors write only a few books, others have a plethora of titles to their name. An example of the latter is the prolific Ann Hood who has written 14 novels — many of them bestsellers — three memoirs, a short story collection, a 10-book series for middle readers and one young adult novel. Her essays and short stories have appeared in many journ...

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It’s one of food’s most beautiful relationships: pasta and sauce. But which came first—and how on Earth are you supposed to figure out which of those hundreds of shapes to serve with your pesto? With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we bring you the saucy—and occasionally scientific—history of an Italian staple. Listen in now as we take you from...

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Saturday, March 3rd, 3 PM - Garibaldi Meucci Museum · 420 Tompkins Avenue · Staten Island, NY 10305. Rosemary Novellino-Mearns' presentation has been seen nationwide. In Saving Radio City Music Hall, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns reveals how this premier tourist attraction was saved from demolition. After years of struggling with intense, sometimes pai...

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A new book, Cambridge Street, is written in their honor. Author Steven Decker has written a story, inspired by true events, that has been called “A must read” and “… a tribute to the ancestors of every Italian.” Decker said “For too long, Italian immigrants have been criminalized in books and movies and their violent acts glamorized. The real story...

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Dreamers! In 1905 Doctor Vincenzo Sellaro said this: “Today I have a dream, and a hope that someday, even if it takes one hundred more years before we are fully accepted, our children and their children’s children, even if they carry a single drop of Italian blood, will be able and proud to continue to carry on our traditions, our culture and our l...

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Titcomb’s Bookshop will welcome author David N. Schwartz to talk about his biography, “The Last Man Who Knew Everything; The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age,” on Saturday, February 10, from 2 to 3 PM. The book is a definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi. In 1...

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Author Josephine B. Pasquarello is pleased to honor her role model, Romania Pasquarello, in her book Love & Loyalty: An Immigrant Italian Mom Raising Her family Of Twelve In The Shadow Of A Mafia Crime. According to Pasquarello, “During my childhood, there was a show called Queen for a Day, which enshrined everyday women--mothers and wives--in thei...

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The Italian American Museum cordially invites you to attend: Giorno Del Ricordo (Day of Remembrance). A recital featuring live music and reading from the book entitled "That One Tin Trumpet of the Eastern Italian Border". Presented by Mario Fragiacomo (Trumpet, Flugelhorn and Live Electronics) and Luisa Brencella (Narrator). Historical presentation...

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February 10 (Saturday) 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Italian American Writer's Association Second Saturday Reading Series. Sidewalk Cafe - 94 Avenue A (6th Street), Manhattan. Admission: $8 (includes one drink); open to the public. Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178. [email protected] Angelo Verga, author of seven poetry collections, has been widely antholog...

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