Preserve Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Worcester, Massachusetts
The Pastor Of Lady Of Loreto / Mount Carmel Church announces an order and a reminder to remove all items and personal plaques from the Recreation Center in preparation of the scheduled demolition on Mulberry St. Worcester. If your family made a contribution toward building the parish, the church or the Recreation building and if you wish to save en...
Honored at last - Family receives Navy veteran's World War II medals
Before Liborio Joseph Dorato died in 1994, the proud and humble World War II Navy veteran had revealed little to his family about his time in the service or how he was injured during the campaign to occupy the Marshall Islands in the winter of 1944. The Staten Island, New York, native, born to parents of Italian descent, had enlisted at 20. He serv...
Meet Nicola Orichuia of I AM Books in North End
Nicola, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? There is an immigrant story behind I AM Books. I moved from Rome, Italy, to the United States in 2008. After two years in Chicago, where I started working for an Italian American magazine named Fra Noi, I moved to Boston. Soon after, I launched bostoniano.info, a websi...
Shore Lore: The fate of the Castagna
On the morning of Feb. 17, 1914, five members of the Italian bark Castagna met a tragic end on the sandbars just south of the Marconi Wireless Station in Wellfleet. Eight crew members would eventually be rescued by the Coast Guard, while four bodies were recovered within hours or days of the wreck. However, it was much longer before the body of the...
Church of the Gesu treasures settle in for brief stay at Fairfield University
She shimmers and shines — her simple brown robe and cream cape transformed into lustrous waves of gold. She holds a quill pen in her right hand and cradles a book of her spiritual writings in her left. On this morning, Linda Wolk-Simon is standing before her. “Think about what this would have looked like on an altar, in the shadowy light of the chu...
La Festa della Donna Celebration (RI) on March 7
When: Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. - Where: Easy Entertaining / Rising Sun Mills | 166 Valley Street, Building 10 | Providence, RI 02909 - Costs: Members: $50; Non-Members: $60. Advance registration required by Thursday, March 1; Must be 21+. Join Rhode Island Region members and friends for an evening celebrating “La Festa della...
Honoring the city's war dead
Army Pvt. Paul Bongiorno landed in Sicily from Tunisia in July 1943 in the first wave of an historic Allied invasion that helped reverse the course of World War II by providing the Allies a gateway to the Italian mainland and then to Europe's interior. "I took part of the invasion of your native land, Ma and Pa,” Bongiorno wrote on July 15 in a let...
The art of Jesuit Rome comes to Connecticut
Fairfield University, whose patron is the Jesuit cardinal and theologian St. Robert Bellarmine, is celebrating this year the 75th anniversary of its founding. Linda Wolk-Simon, the imaginative and energetic director of the University Art Museum, had an audacious dream—indeed, she readily admits, it was “quixotic”—to bring to Fairfield the magnifice...
Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts suffers month of misfortune - devastating water damage from burst pipe followed by burglary
When Gary MacQueston, a director of the Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts, stopped by Jan. 9 to check on the club's building at 56 Margaret St., it was raining. Inside. MacQueston rushed upstairs in the former firehouse in the South End to find that a plumbing fitting under a sink had given way on the coldest day of the year. He foun...
Growing up in a world that provided everything you needed
When you’re a kid, your neighborhood is the center of your universe. Everything that you know, you learned there — at home, in school and with your friends right there on the street where you lived. Growing up in New Haven’s Wooster Square gave me an opportunity to have an experience that I still treasure and appreciate. How can you not appreciate...
Il Circolo italiano di Boston presenta: Maschere in Movimento, il Mondo della Commedia dell'Arte
Thursday, February 15 | 7:30-9:30pm | 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge. Il Circolo italiano di Boston presenta: Maschere in Movimento: il Mondo della Commedia dell'Arte. By Chiara Durazzini, Co-Fondatrice e Direttore Artistico della compagnia di Commedia dell'Arte Pazzi Lazzi. La sala di riunione si trova davanti al edificio principale dei "Friends." M...
Italian Founder Of Hamden-Based Catholic Nuns One Step Closer To Sainthood
Between family tension, health issues, a destroyed reputation and exile from the community of Roman Catholic nuns she helped found, Clelia Merloni could have easily given up. But instead, Merloni bore those trials quietly and without complaint and chose to love those who persecuted her. It’s one of the reasons the nuns of the Hamden-based religious...