Bocce Fever ........ Catch It!!!!
Get your Bocce Balls ready 'cause here it is, the inaugural Bocce Tournament of the Italian Heritage Society of Indiana!!!!! When: Friday, June 14th (start time: 4:00 PM) - 45 minute games Saturday, June 15th - Winners from Friday games (start time: 12:00 PM). 1st Round- 45 minutes, 2nd & Final Rounds- 30 minutes Where: Lacy Park at McCarty...
Gary's St. Mary of the Lake to stay open in 'a medium-size miracle'
Even though he's in the business of miracles, Diocese of Gary Bishop Donald J. Hying says he doesn't expect them every day. Hying celebrated what he termed "a medium-size miracle" Sunday with parishioners of St. Mary of the Lake Church, proclaiming the once-doomed church financially and spiritually viable and saying its doors will stay ope...
Roma Lodge's Italian Fest
Roma Lodge's Italian Festival returns to Festival Park, 5 Fifth St., July 29-31. Festival hours are 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, noon to 1 a.m. Saturday and noon to 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission costs $5 at the gate; $4 for advance purchase tickets. The 38th annual festival will feature a variety of live entertainment and traditional I...
Modeling Christ's birth
Jan Giuffre Sables admits that at one time she thought the 125-year-old Italian-made nativity set she received when her father died was "pretty generic." The scene representing the birth of Jesus, created in 1890 in a town in southern Italy, has what one might expect: figures of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, plus animals and wise men looking on in...
History of Tiramisù Dinner
by Sandra Tornberg The IACS was proud to host special guests Flavia Cosolo, her son Cristiano Romani, and Coro Gruppo Costumi Tradizionali Bisiachi on June 1. Flavia's family has owned a restaurant and hotel called "Al Vetturino" in the town of Pieris, province of Gorizia, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, since 1850. Flavia...
Italian heritage of Valley to be noted
The Trumbull County Historical Society will hold an open house 2 p.m. Sunday at the John Stark Edwards House, 303 Monroe St., Warren. The program is "Italian-Americans of the Greater Mahoning Valley," presented by and with book signing by authors Donna DelBlasio and Martha Pallante. Tours of the home will follow from 3 to 5 p.m. Admission...
Italian Hall talk part of FinnFest 2013 events
By Kurt Hauglie , Houghton Daily Mining Gazette It was probably appropriate the sky was cloudy and gray Thursday during a commemoration of the 1913 Italian Hall tragedy, which took place at the site where the building stood on Seventh Street in Calumet. In front of a large crowd gathered around the site, the ceremony was a presentation of...
Lorain Italian-American Veterans to host fundraiser for Louise R. Johnson Memorial Fund
By Ron Vidika A fundraiser for the Louise R. Johnson Memorial Fund will take place Feb. 1 from 5 to 11 p.m. at the Italian-American Veterans Post No. 1, 4567 Oberlin Ave., Lorain. Advance tickets cost $25 per person and cost $30 at the door. There will be a dinner, entertainment with a disc jockey, a 50/50 raffle, a Chinese auction and a s...
Gran Serata Futurista - a unique performance celebrating the birth of the Futurist movement
This unique performance celebrates the birth of the Futurist movement. Actor and director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory will deliver an effervescent monologue of explosive Manifestos, which heralded the start of the Futurist revolution in 1909 in diverse fields of knowledge, from the arts and life. Inspired by the Italian Futurist tradition,...
Ethnic Heritage Museum honors ‘Father or Man of the Year’ recipients
Every summer, Rockford's Ethnic Heritage Museum honors some of the men in the community as "Father or Man of the Year" award recipients. These men are being recognized not only for being great fathers and mentors, but also for their many accomplishments and contributions to life in the Rockford area. Throughout the month of July, the museu...
Zuccarelli receives first Columbus Patriot Award from Order Sons of Italy in America
The Order Sons of Italy in America, Grand Lodge of Illinois and Wisconsin awarded its first Columbus Patriot Award to Thornton Township Supervisor Frank Zuccarelli at its 90th Columbus Day banquet on Oct. 11 at the Villa Brunetti in Franklin Park, Ill. The Columbus Patriot Award demonstrates the American spirit of can do, where the individ...
Screening of "18 IUS SOLI" - November 21, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago Andrea Raos is pleased to invite you to the screening of "18 IUS SOLI". The strange case of citizenship in modern Italy by Fred Kuwornu A documentary about ethnicity, national identity, and multiculturalism in contemporary Italy by Italian-Ghanaian filmmaker Fred...