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The second Monday in October — the holiday formerly known as Columbus Day — will now be called Indigenous Peoples Day at West Hartford Public Schools. At a Feb. 21 board of education meeting, residents asked that the town consider changing the name of the holiday on the district’s calendar to honor the struggles of indigenous people during periods...

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In the early 1900s, Hartford was a booming economic center. Italy, on the other hand, suffered both economically and socially. Hundreds of thousands of Italian men looked for unskilled work in other countries; many eventually headed to the United States. Hartford’s potential job opportunities attracted Italians and soon the city’s number of immigra...

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When a drastic drop in business due to ongoing iQuilt construction forced Vito's By The Park from its location of 20 years, some wondered how the loss of its bucolic, park side, al fresco identity would affect it. The location "was magic," chef-owner Rob Maffucci, told Hartford Courant reporter Leanne Griffin. But if there's one thing 51-year-old M...

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You do not know what beauty is if you have not been here," Mark Twain famously wrote about Hartford in 1868. Visiting the capital of the Constitution State 150 years later, as the ambassador of Italy to the United States, I can see why one of America's greatest writers, whose novels have been read all over the world, was moved by the beauty of this...

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Quintino Cianfaglione came to Hartford from his native Abruzzo, Italy as a confident and headstrong 20-year-old searching for the American dream. Fifty years later, on a day he called “one of the most important” of his life, he said the dream had finally come true. Cianfaglione was officially sworn in Tuesday as the honorary consul of Italy in Conn...

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On Sunday at 2 p.m. the public is invited to hear poets Dennis Barone, David Cappella, Maria Sassi, Tom Nicotera, Geri Radacsi, Tony Fusco and Maria Frank as they lead an afternoon of poetry at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society. Dennis Barone served as the second Poet Laureate of West Hartford. He is the author of seven book...

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The end of an era for many Italian-Americans in Hartford's south end will come on Saturday when parishioners of Saint Luke Church hold an annual Mass that celebrates their connection to the old country but also a belief in miracles that is an important part of their religious faith. That event is the Mass for the Madonna delle Lacrime, or Madonna o...

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Si informa la comunità italiana residente ad Hartford nello Stato di Connecticut che il giorno 16 agosto 2017, sarà effettuata una missione itinerante per la rilevazione dei dati biometrici ai fini del rilascio del passaporto italiano. La missione avrà luogo presso gli Uffici del Console Onorario Quintino Cianfaglione a 196 Trumbull Street, terzo p...

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The Italian American Celebration Honoring Christopher Columbus Committee (I.A.C.) will award scholarships to 14 area students this month. The recipients were selected by a Scholarship Committee, which was headed by Professor Dario Del Puppo of Trinity College, Hartford. Eight $1,000 scholarships and six $500 scholarships will be presented June 22 a...

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In the current debate on immigration policy, we see two opposing views toward new arrivals — some are welcoming, some want to seal the borders and keep them out. Were immigrants always treated with ambivalence, with one arm open?   My study of an Italian religious community in Hartford suggests they were. I recently read dozens of articles f...

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