On Friday, Laura Sacco and her mom, Anna Maria De Zolt, came to Middletown Town Hall from Italy to meet with Mayor Tony Perry and to help trace their family's connection to Middletown. At 83 years old, De Zolt made her first trip to the United States to check out a sculpture her long-lost relative, Geremia Grandelis, made for his son’s tombstone in...
READ MOREDear friends, We the Italians is spending October, the Italian Heritage Month, back and forth between New York, Rome and Washington DC. This is the busiest month of the year for us, and for several friends in the Italian American community. October began with a very special moment for me. As you may know, I have the honor of being the representativ...
READ MOREIn an old brick building in what used to be Denver’s Little Italy, Italian traditions are still very much alive at the Potenza Lodge. “The 3 F’s of Italian culture are family, faith and food,” said Geraldine Pergola, the lodge’s historian. “I was born into the Potenza Lodge. My parents were both lifelong members,” she said. “The Potenza Lodge, out...
READ MOREAn important meeting was held in recent days at the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration as NY between the symbols of Italian-American emigration: the MU.MA and the MEI, with the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. This is a further step in the international collaboration between these prestigious institutions that will lead to the creation in...
READ MORELike so many other Chicago-area Italian Americans, Ron Onesti traces his stateside roots to the legendary Taylor Street Little Italy on the city’s Near West Side. His father’s parents settled there when they arrived from Italy, his father grew up and made lasting memories there, and Onesti was born in the neighborhood and went to school at St. Call...
READ MOREItalians in Long Branch, at the Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center, NJ, celebrates the history and legacy of Italian immigrants who made Long Branch their new home in the early 20th century. This exhibit pays tribute to the strength and spirit of the Italian immigrants who settled in Long Branch and whose legacy continues to shape the city. “It’s b...
READ MOREThe Italian Diaspora Studies Association is pleased to announce the launch of a new residential writing seminar. It will be held at the Grand Hotel San Michele, located in Cetraro (Cosenza), on the Northern Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, May 22-31, 2025. This program inaugurates a collaborative project with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experie...
READ MOREIt was a labor of amore. The new Italian American Museum — which swings its doors open to the public Monday at its sleek digs on 151 Mulberry St. in Little Italy — was an idea more than 20 years in the making, according to its founder Joseph V. Scelsa. “Every group should have their culture recognized and seen by the public at large,” Scelsa told T...
READ MOREOctober 2024 "Italians of Newark: A History" told by a Jersey Girl with Italian roots
READ MOREUntil a few years ago there were ten Italian Consulates in the United States, because there was also one in New Jersey, in Newark. It was a very bad choice to close it ten years ago, in my opinion, because the area is very populated with Italians and Italian Americans, and the two Consulates in New York and Philadelphia, which had to share the resp...
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