WTI Magazine #42    2014 September, 3
Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:

Labor day– the first Monday of September - is like the beginning of a new year, even in Italy where our Labor Day is celebrated on May 1st. We the Italians is changing, improving, and after the august break our magazine comes back with some news. 

The first one is this column. We feel the need to tell you what's up with We the Italians: many things have been done, many results achieved, many more are ahead of us. The future's so bright, we gotta wear shades! So, we'll use a small room of every number of our magazine to tell you what we' re doing.

The magazine will be fortnightly from now on, either as a section of our website and in the flipping book/pdf download version. It'll be easier for us and for you. Besides this small column it will contain my interview to somebody who has something interesting and new to say about one of the thousand aspects of the relationship between Italy and the US, and the columns about several different aspects of our beloved country. As for now we have 16 of them, in every issue: and let us tell you that no other country in the world could allow that much excellence, nobody would ever be able to do something similar regarding any other country in the world. That's how fantastic Italy is.

The newsletter will also be fortnightly, following the magazine. Our database is growing fast, but there are so many fellow Italians in the US we still have to reach. So please, help us spreading the word about it. Our Facebook fan page has reached 10,000 like, but it's only the beginning (though, not a bad result, right?).

I spent last Saturday august 30 at the wonderful Festival delle Storie. It is organized by a friend of We the Italians, Vittorio Macioce, in his native land, the spectacular Valle di Comino, in the southeastern part of Lazio. A place that we highly advice you all to visit, next time you'll be in Italy.

August 30 was entirely dedicated to Italian American stories. Meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy Mrs. Kathleen Doherty, in the morning I attended a couple of events, with the showing of a very well done documentary called "Le ragazze di Ellis Island" (The girls from Ellis Island). After the lunch break, in the afternoon I had the honour to give a lecture about We the Italians and the journalism of the future, together with my good friend Andrea Mancia, and then to attend an interesting panel by our friend Gaetano Pellicano about startup and innovation technology. I was then part of another panel in the beautiful Alvito Castle, discussing some interesting facts about Italy and the Italian Americans together with some other We the Italians friends like Massimo Veccia (founder of LearnItaly, the ones in charge of the Italian language column of our magazine) and Renato Cantore, author of "Il Castello sull'Hudson", the story of Charles Paterno).

After the lovely dinner prepared by the Italian American chef Cristina Bowerman, during which our friend Paolo Battaglia presented his book "Explorers Emigrants Citizens", in its Italian version called "Trovare l'America", we spent the night listening to the incredible story of Ralph Minichiello, the Italian American Vietnam veteran who inspired the storytelling of the Rambo movies, interviewed by another friend of ours, Massimo Veronese. We felt proud and glad to be able to celebrate a great Italian sport champion of the past, the awesome Sara Simeoni; and we ended the night listening to "That's Amore", the astonishing concert of the last but not least friends of us, Francesco Durante, who together with his band sung more than 2 hours of music straight from the Little Italies of the beginning of last century. A feast for the heart, the mind and the ears of We the Italians who love the Italian American culture.

So stay tuned, fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride, because we're just getting started ... Thanks for your time and appreciation, take care. Ciao!