Newton’s Italian Society celebrates 100 years
By Cynthia Chen When Giobanni Amicangioli first immigrated here from Italy in 1901, he faced discrimination, low wages, and little help from the government. He settled in Thompsonville, one of Newton's lesser-known villages, where in 1915 he started the Italian Benevolent Society, Filippo Corsi, offering financial and social support to strugg...
Mt. Carmel Society readies for its yearly Italian Festival
By Calla Vassilopoulos Throughout the last century, the U.S. has experienced a depression, two World Wars, the Vietnam War, and a recession, but Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society continues to persevere, according to its president, Carl Sferrazza. For the last 88 years, the organization located in Enfield has shared Italian traditions with the commu...
Italian immigrants and violent crime
On Sunday, Aug. 4, 1901, the Boston Globe invited five prominent Italians and Italian Americans to respond to the question: "Is the Italian More Prone to Violent Crime than Any Other Race?" The question was not simply a product of anti-Italian stereotypes. As the table below notes, crime statistics of the time showed that while Italians committed...
Connecticut woman celebrates 110th birthday
A Connecticut woman is celebrating a big milestone — her 110th birthday. There weren't quite that many candles on Emily Tremonti's cake Saturday at the elder residence where she lives in Fairfield. There were nieces and nephews she has indulged during her long life. Her great, great-niece, Mary-Kate Mele, said her Aunt "Em" didn't have ch...
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts exhibiting drawings by Leonardo, Michelangelo and other Renaissance masters
Is Leonardo da Vinci's "Head of a Young Woman" the greatest drawing ever made? Granted, that may sound like a presumptuous question. Yet both the drawing and its subject — an ethereal young beauty who might easily pass for the Mona Lisa's kid sister or one of the elf-maidens in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy — have had plenty of admirers over...
Chazz Palminteri performs his award-winning ‘A Bronx Tale’ on the stage of The Ridgefield Playhouse on September 18
From Broadway to The Ridgefield Playhouse stage, Chazz Palminteri performs his one-man stage version of the award winning film "A Bronx Tale" on Friday, September 18, at 8 p.m. as part of the Ridgefield Magazine Broadway and Cabaret Series. Based on his childhood memories of working men and gangsters in the Italian-American neighborhood wh...
Italian American Women’s club to celebrate anniversary
On Saturday, April 16, the Italian American Women's Club is celebrating its 70th Anniversary. There will be a mass in its honor, celebrated by Fr. Ron Gliatta with Fr. Peter Furgiuele, at 4 p.m., St. Joseph's Church, Winsted. Followed by dinner to be held at the Franciscan Parish Center, 31 Oak Street, for members and their families. The d...
Mazzaglia: A Sicilian tradition lives on
By Frank Mazzaglia Among the 275,000 Italian-Americans who make their home in Middlesex County, many of them, particularly Sicilians, will most likely be visiting Lawrence, the "Immigrant City" this Labor Day weekend for the 90th anniversary of "The Feast of the Three Saints." Revelers come to the "The Feast" for a good time. After all, everybody...
Cambridge University team discovers possible Michelangelo bronzes
It's a discovery that is reverberating throughout the art world – a University of Cambridge-led research team believes that they have discovered the only surviving Michelangelo bronze statues. Last fall, Paul Joannides, emeritus professor of art history at Cambridge, traced two three feet-high bronze male nude figures to a drawing by a Mic...
Appreciation:Jerry Del Prete,The King of Cold Cuts, Dies at 69
By John Lynds Jerry Del Prete, East Boston's undisputed 'King of Cold Cuts', has died. Del Prete, who for over three decades ran the unassuming yet arguably one of the best sub shops in town, died on Wednesday, January 6 following a short illness at his home surrounded by his family. He was 69 years old. Del Prete successfull...
GVS spa invests in Maine manufacturing
GVS S.p.A. and Maine Manufacturing, LLC have recently announced that they have entered into an agreement to form a new partnership. GVS has joined the existing investors of Maine Manufacturing by providing investment capital to acquire a majority equity interest in Maine Manufacturing and dramatically grow the business. The new investment capital h...
Bostoniano Receives 2013 Achievement Award
The Consulate General of Italy's third annual "Achievement Awards" ceremony took place at the Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday, May 2.Bostoniano founder Nicola Orichuia received the "Giovane Promessa" (Promising Youth) award for his work on Bostoniano.info (launched in January 2011) and Bostoniano magazine (launched in January 2013). Several other...