Kingston, City of Festivals? While the O+ Festival primarily stakes out Uptown and Midtown and plies its unique art-for-healthcare bargain and designer Brad Ford’s carefully curated Field + Supply modern makers’ craft fair inhabits the Hutton Brickyards, the Ulster County Italian American Foundation presents a celebration of a different and more traditional kind: the tenth annual Italian Festival on Sunday, October 8 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Rondout waterfront, 1 Broadway in Kingston.

The Ulster County Italian American Foundation (UCIAF) was founded upon the premise that the 35,000 Italian Americans living in Ulster County were looking for an organization to help focus ethnic pride and the preservation of traditions.