Chrysler Group’s Sergio Marchionne Addresses Industry Leaders at 2013 SAE World Congress Annual Banquet
Chrysler Group LLC's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne addressed more than 1,000 automotive leaders at the 2013 SAE World Congress Annual Banquet today, at COBO Center in Detroit about the need to evolve the industry's business models as well as defining a path that would produce the innovation needed to grow the auto industry...
The “Little Italies” of Michigan
In doing reseach for this post, I was sure that Italian immigrants found their way to Detroit, because it was a major industrial center that offered job opportunities the immigrants were seeking in coming to America. What totally surprised me was the number of immigrants who settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A land totally different from...
Italian Heritage Festival honors two longtime Lorain business owners
Two longtime Lorain business owners and members of the Italian-American Veterans Post 1, 4567 Oberlin Ave. in Lorain, will be honored at an upcoming celebration. Marie Bonaminio and Baldo Campana will be spotlighted at the fourth annual Festival of Italian Heritage starting at noon on Oct. 11 with festivities continuing through 6 p.m. at t...
Columbus Italian Festival has aroma, amore
by Lori Kurtzman We'll talk about the sights of the Columbus Italian Festival — the sausage selfies, the BONGRNO license plate, the woman in cherry red heels navigating the brick streets — but, first, can we talk about the smell? It doesn't hit you right away. As you make your way to the festival's 4th Street entrance, there's barely...
"Amore: The Story of Italian American Song" by Mark Rotella
"AMORE: The Story of Italian American Song"By Mark RotellaFarrar, Straus & Giroux, 320 pages, $26.00 1947 was a splendid year for Italian Americans. For decades, Italian immigrants, especially those from the poorer southern regions, were feared, discriminated against, even lynched on occasion. Then suddenly the whole country was going...
The Italian Heritage Society of Indiana Lecture Series Presents: Discover Northern Italy: The Alps, the Lakes and Everything in between
Sunday, November 23 - 2 pmWhen: Sunday, November 23, 2014 2:00-4:00 pm Where: UL 1126 in the IUPUI Library University Library, 755 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis IN 46202 (317-278-2084) "Lake Como....Garda....Bellagio....idyllic places that have since the time of the Romans, been summer destinations for pleasure and beauty. But there is so muc...
Pursuing Our Italian Names Together, Chapter 22, Milwaukee Meeting Reminder and Genealogy Event Announcement
by George Koleas We are Pursuing Our Italian Names Together, Chapter 22. We are also known as and the Italian Family History Club at the Italian Community Center and Milwaukee County Genealogical Society's Italian Area Interest Group. Our next meeting will be held on September 19, 2015, at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago...
Remains of Catholics' youngest saint coming to Chicago
by Manya Brachear Pashman The remains of the youngest saint canonized by the Roman Catholic Church are expected to arrive in Chicago at dawn Monday as part of a 16-state tour during her first visit to the U.S. St. Maria Goretti, an 11-year-old Italian girl stabbed to death while resisting a sexual assault more than a century ago,...
ICF Branch 392 to honor the Gerardis
The Italian Catholic Federation Branch 392 will present Giovanna and Antonio Gerardi with its Mother Cabrini Award on Nov. 13. The award is bestowed each year upon a couple that represents the Italian values of community, family and faith. The event will feature a Mass at St. Francis Borgia Church in Chicago and a dinner dance at Porretta's. (773-7...
Lyric's amusing 'Family Barber' hits home with young audience
By John von Rhein For a second straight year, Lyric Opera has turned to a staple of Italian comic opera, Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," as the basis for a show designed to introduce children ages 5-10, and their elders, to the joys of opera. The result was "The Family Barber," a fluffy and amusing entertainment the company presented S...
Honoring our veterans by telling their stories
by Dan Niemiec As it gets closer to Veterans' Day, we are reminded of our ancestors who sacrificed so much to serve in our Armed Forces. Sadly, the World War II generation is rapidly shrinking as they reach their nineties, and there are no combat veterans living who served in World War I. I hope that when you research your family, you try...
Local books and authors: Italian immigrant family saga
Former Akron resident pens 1920s immigrant tale. Children of Italy, a historical romance by former Akron resident Christine Simolke, provides well-researched details on the lives of Italian immigrants in 1920s Appalachia. Using stories of her own grandmother and great-aunts as inspiration, Simolke fashions the story of a family and their secre...