Michael W. Homer (Honorary Italian Consul - Salt Lake City)
Il viaggio virtuale tra Italia e Stati Uniti e all'interno di essi, ci porta spesso negli Stati in cui ci sono più Italiani, in genere sulle due coste. Ma l'America è tanto altro, ed anche in questo tanto altro, magari meno conosciuto qui da noi, si racchiudono perle, notizie interessanti, e italiani di successo e orgogliosi della loro origine. Neg...
Laura Caparrotti (Founder of In scena! Italian Theater festival NY)
New York is not just Manhattan, and one who understood very well this is Laura Caparrotti, Roman by birth and New Yorker by adoption, who last year created "In scena! Italian Theater festival NY" that brings the Italian theater in all 5 boroughs of New York City: Manhattan as well as also the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. The 2014 edi...
Domenick Crimi (President - South 9th Street Business Men's Association, Philadelphia)
During the years of mass emigration from Italy to the US, one of the peculiarities of the Little Italies all over the US definitively was the street market. Many used to spend several hours on the street: people would work hard, start their small business, socialize with other "paisanos", meet friends and maybe future spouses, get a life away from...
Salvatore LaGumina (Writer)
Two of the five New York borroughs, Queens and Brooklyn, are not only part of New York, but also part of Long Island, at least officially: even so, usually when somebody refers to Long Island thinks about Nassau and Suffolk Counties, not the Queens or Kings (Brooklyn) County. Long Island is home to many, many Italian Americans. One of them know...
Albert DeLauro (Chairman of the board - Ferrari Club of America)
When I was a child, I had the privilege to shake Enzo Ferrari's hand. I didn't know who that old man was, but my father, who was born very close to Maranello, seemed to be very fond of him, and so I knew that he was somebody important. When I told this to Albert DeLauro, the Chairman of the Board of the Ferrari Club of America, he probably felt the...
Marian Paravano Grubor (President of the Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival)
West Virginia has a long history of Italian emigration. In 1910 more than 17,000 Italians were living there, making up 30% of the entire foreign-born population of the State: Italy even had a consular office in northern West Virginia. The majority of the Italian immigrants came from the south: Calabria, Campania, Sicilia. In 1907, the worst mining...
Alisa DiGiacomo (Author of the book "Italy in Colorado: Family Histories from Denver and Beyond")
On the (virtual) road again, our trip around the US searching for Italian traces brings us today in Colorado. Again, not among the first States usually mentioned regarding the Italian emigration to the United States, but we will discover that there's a lot of Italy here too, starting from its motto that has its origin in Virgil's Aeneid: "Nil sine...
Claudio Bozzo (President - Italian Chamber of Commerce in New York)
In describing the protagonists of different aspects of the relationship between Italy and the United States, we often met young successful (at least, young by the Italian standards), other times prominent managers or entrepreneurs, or institutional representatives. The person we interview today combines in himself all these three aspects, together...
Germana Giordano (Italian criminal defense lawyer in New York)
Movies and TV series on trials and legal issues have long helped Italians learn about the criminal justice system in the United States. New York has only one Italian criminal defense lawyer. She is a brilliant, young woman from Bari who helps Italian and American citizens who are struggling with the intricacies of American law. Her name is Germana...
Elena Sgarbi (Italian Consul General in Houston)
Who knows America just superficially would never imagine how much interest for Italy there is in the southern United States, nor how many interesting things for us who live in the boot happen in that area, with a focal point in Texas, among the wealthier and more growing States, from every point of view. On December 6, for example, Houston will ho...
Marco Marinucci (Founder and President - MTB Mind The Bridge Foundation)
Marco Marinucci è ideatore e presidente di Mind the Bridge, nata a San Francisco per aiutare a promuovere le idee innovative italiane presso e tramite la Silicon Valley. Marco è uno dei maggiori protagonisti dell'innovazione italiana: pur non vivendo in Italia, con Mind the Bridge fa tanto per aiutare lo sviluppo della nuova impresa, soprattutto pe...
Melissa Marinaro (Curator of the Italian American Program in Pittsburgh)
Looking for Italian traces all over the 50 States, this time we get back to Pennsylvania, the Keystone State: more precisely to Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania. One of the main concerns that several Italian American friends have told us is that young Italian Americans could feel their bound with their heritage in a different, slighter way. Well,...