Keeping old traditions fresh: Auburn Italian-American group honors St. Joseph
Traditional Italian pastries filled Angelo's Pizza in Auburn Sunday morning. Preparing for the St. Joseph's Day Feast Celebration starts early for members of Auburn's Cultural Italian American Organization, CIAO chairman Paul Saltarello said. Every year before the feast people meet at Angelo's to make bread in the shape of a shepherd's hook, zeppol...
Italian American Society holds Bocce picnic
The Italian American Society of Marco Island held their annual Dale Johnson Memorial Bocce Picnic at Mackle Park with 125 members and guests enjoying a great barbecue of chicken, sausage and peppers, hot dogs, hamburgers, salads, assorted desserts and music with DJ Steve Reynolds. The picnic signals the end of the Monday afternoon league for the se...
Ambassador Armando Varricchio visits Georgia
Italian Ambassador to the US Armando Varricchio paid a visit to the State of Georgia. The mission began in Athens with the inauguration ceremony of the exhibition "Life, love and marriage chests in Renaissance Italy", organized by the Georgia Museum of Art in collaboration with the Stibbert Museum of Florence, and ended yesterday in the capital Atl...
Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra presents tribute to great Italian composers
The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra presents Viva Italiano!, an evening of the greatest Italian composers. The audience will hear Verdi’s “Nabbuco,” his first great opera that made him a national figure; composer Rossini’s “La gaza ladra,” his first success to great acclaim; and Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” one of the most frequently performed of...
Ruth Eckerd Hall to welcome The Sicilian Tenors
The Sicilian Tenors will perform Wednesday, March 27, 1 p.m., at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen Booth Road, Clearwater. Tickets start at $18. Call 727-791-7400 or visit www.rutheckerdhall.com. The Sicilian Tenors takes audiences on a romantic journey from Hollywood to Broadway to Italy with favorites such as “Be My Love,” “O Sole Mio” and “Music o...
Tampa parents head to Italy for a memorial after death of their soldier son, who attended Plant High
Peter Sebastian Cimino was a young man from Tampa who loved fishing, God and serving in the U.S. Army. Sunday, March 3, his mother and father received a visit no parent ever wants. The soldiers came to say that Cimino, 19, a private with the 173d Airborne Brigade Combat team, stationed at Caserma Ederle, in Vicenza, Italy, was found dead on base. “...
‘We need more people like that’: How Lou Benfante breathed new life into Hilton Head history
Lou Benfante went to great pains to look like Ormsby Mitchel, the Civil War general. And William Hilton, the explorer. This way, he literally stepped into history, dressed as two pillars of Hilton Head Island’s past as best as a Lehigh University history major (magna cum laude) and retired supply-chain management executive could do it. And in the p...
Festa della Repubblica in Miami. Concept: “Italian technology and style”
Miami, 31.05.2019 Il “marchio Italia” presente nel sud-est degli Stati Uniti e, in particolar modo, nella città metropolitana di Miami si caratterizza per l’azione delle aziende italiane attive in vari settori: solo per citarne alcuni, costruzioni civili, produzione di macchinari di precisione, tecnologia dell’informazione, arte classica e contempo...
Santa Maria Replica Will Sail Into Brunswick, St. Augustine In April
A replica of the tall ship Santa Maria will be visiting Brunswick and St. Augustine in April. The replica of one of the world’s most famous sailing and discovery ships took more than a year to build in Spain’s Punta Umbría shipyards. About one hundred craftsmen, carpenters, historians, mechanics and others made up the ship’s multi-disciplinary cons...
Museum examines love in the Renaissance
Marriage chests from Renaissance Italy will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from March 9 through May 26. The exhibition “Life, Love and Marriage Chests in Renaissance Italy” is organized by Contemporanea Progetti in collaboration with the Stibbert Museum, in Florence. The curator is Martina Beccatini, curator...
St. Thomas prepping for Irish-Italian Festival March 16
A popular Pine Belt-area event returns March 16 when St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Hattiesburg hosts the 18th annual Irish-Italian Festival Saturday, March 16, featuring great food, fantastic music, fellowship, a parade, a raffle for a cash prize of $3,500, and much more. The festival’s ‘Roll N’ Stroll’ parade is at 10:30 a.m. and the fes...
Bill to switch Columbus Day holiday sent sailing
Legislators have put off deciding whether the second Monday in October needs a name change for this session. A bill that would have renamed Christopher Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day was retained in committee Tuesday, meaning it probably won’t be back this year. Communities across the country have been wrestling with whether to make the sw...