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by Kait Walsh   Springfield's rich Italian heritage was on full display in the city's South End Sunday. 22News spoke with proud Italian Americans as they honored Our Lady of Mount Carmel. For Italian-Americans in Springfield's South End, the Madonna and Baby Jesus represent more than their Catholic faith: they signify family and co...

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Questa che racconto è la storia della grande emigrazione, che ebbe il suo più importante movimento tra il 1876 e il 1915. Generata dalla diffusa povertà di vaste aree d'Italia, in cerca di un riscatto sociale, ebbe come destinazione le nazioni delle Americhe, in particolare l'Argentina, il Brasile e gli Stati Uniti, paesi che avevano grandi estensi...

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Every year, the Mount Carmel Society here hosts the Feast of Mount Carmel, complete with a carnival, multiple fireworks events and a procession on the feast day, July 16. Get a sense of what you can expect by looking through some of the best photos from last year's feast.   The fairgrounds are on Springfield Avenue, at River Road. There are...

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By Giovanni di Napoli   "The Nativity of Mercy" was officially unveiled Tuesday night at Most Precious Blood Church in Manhattan's Little Italy in honor of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and beginning of Pope Francis' Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.   Commissioned by Monsignor Donald Sakano, the Neapolitan presepio was cr...

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Quest'anno la "Giglio Society of East Harlem", sta preparando la sua festa con la prevista "Dancing of Saint Anthony's Giglio" dell'11 agosto 2013 con una grande sorpresa ed un forte impatto emotivo per i discendenti italoamericani con radici bruscianesi: la veste del Giglio proviene direttamente da Brusciano grazie alla produzione ed alla fraterna...

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This is an excerpt from the introduction to An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians, a book by former Newsday reporter Paul Moses that is to be released July 7 by NYU Press. On those chilly March days when I walked home with the other boys from Mary Queen of Heaven School in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn in...

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by Rita Cipalla   In 1903, several national figures made their way to the shores of Puget Sound, no easy feat at the time. In April of that year, John C. Olmstead, stepson of landscape designer Frederick Law Olmstead, arrived to plan out the city's parks and boulevards. In May, President Teddy Roosevelt stopped by on his grand tour of the Am...

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by Carol Ann Benanti   As a means to further and expand the mission of St. Padre Pio and the newly founded St. Pio of Pietrelcina Society, Vincent Demonte, Stefano Sena and Maria Buonsante, owners of Bocelli Ristorante, hosted "Cooking with Chef Stefano." It was a festive affair, where down-home Italian specialties were prepared in grand fa...

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Sarà proiettato all'Italian American Museum il 21 novembre Where her Feet Stood (Dove Posarono i Suoi Piedi), film documentario di Luca Guardabascio.Il 4 giugno 1947 a Casanova Staffora, villaggio rurale della provincia di Pavia, Angela Volpini (7 anni) incontra una signora mentre si trovava su una collina con suoi amici. La bella signora dice ad A...

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The 88th Annual Feast of San Gennaro, New York City's longest-running, biggest and most revered religious outdoor festival, will take place for 11 days starting Thursday, September 11 and continuing through Sunday, September 21, 2014, it was announced today by Joseph Mattone, President of Figli di San Gennaro (Children of San Gennaro), the not-for-...

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