Carnevale with the Vaudo Clan — In person, this time
Last year I wrote about the Vaudo clan's annual pre-Lenten Carnevale meal – a daylong event attended by over 60 people spanning five generations. This year I had the honor of participating in the meal at the invitation of Tommy and Rita Damigella. Held at their lovely home in Topsfield, Massachusetts, the gathering was an experience of a l...
Columbus Day Parade Kickoff Party July 12
By Rachel Ettlinger Paul Criscuolo, President of the Columbus Day Committee of Greater New Haven, has announced this year's Columbus Day Parade Kickoff Party will be held on Sunday July 12. The party will be hosted by the East Haven Italian-American Club at the club's facility, 509 Laurel St. in East Haven. The event, which will featu...
Sixth Annual Heritage Golf Classic event, October 2
The Italian Heritage Month Committee and the Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Lodge #2183, Sons of Italy of Wilmington are proud to announce the Sixth Annual Italian Heritage Golf Classic in celebration of October as Italian Heritage Month on Friday, October 2, 2015 at the Merrimack Valley Golf Club in Methuen. The committee invites you to participate in...
The 2015 Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and Culture
THU, OCT 22, 2015 AT 5:30 PM. Center for European Studies - Harvard University, Cambridge, MAOn the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Italy, by the Resistance and the Allies, in this year's Salvemini lecture Professor Portelli will discuss the complex relationship many partisans had with the inevitable use of violence in th...
Rehumanizing the immigrant experience in Maine
By Kelley Bouchard It's a bold statement that rings true when measured against history. "There are no new immigration stories," said Tilly Laskey, outreach curator at the Maine Historical Society. Irish immigrants were barred from many jobs in the 1800s. Japanese families were placed in internment camps out West during World War...
Carnevale Project by Pascal Gangi
For the Fisherman's Feast in the North End in 2016, the artistic group is currently working in bringing a little taste of the Carnevale tradition from Sciacca to the North End. The Carnevale in Sciacca calls for the parade of the float accompanied by its traditional music, Dance group and a Comedia dell' Arte group. Just like the actual tradit...
DellaVecchias will be honored with mass at Italian Festival
During the annual Italian-American Festival that fills downtown Southington with the scent of sausage and peppers and pasta fagioli, festival-goers take a break from visiting food and craft vendors on Sunday morning when an outdoor crowd gathers at the festival's main stage, for a full Catholic mass. This year's mass will be held in memory of Arth...
We checked out the new Eataly and here’s what we saw
By Megan Woolhouse Eataly Boston will open its doors Nov. 29, but you can almost smell the food cooking already. Almost. The high-end Italian food megastore has installed its signature gold-domed pizza ovens, imported directly from Naples. Vast expanses of marble countertop are nearly set to serve up homemade gelato, panini and...
Renzo Piano firma il museo delle Arti di Harvard, apertura per l'autunno 2014
Aprirà nell'autunno del 2014 la nuova ala del museo delle Arti dell'università di Harvard, che unirà per la prima volta sotto uno stesso tetto tre spazi espositivi sinora distinti. Si tratta del Fogg Museum, del Busch-Reisinger Museum e dell'Arthur M. Sackler Museum che, una volta uniti, andranno a costituire l'Harvard Art Museums. Lo spazio è sta...
ANNO VERDIANO: Verdi’s Bicentennial Celebration In Rockport, Massachusetts
The past August 11th, at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, in Rockport, Massachusetts, a free Community Live Opera Concert titled "GIUSEPPE VERDI: HIS HEROES AND VILLAINS" was offered to a large audience, proving once more that opera is more than alive. The Metropolitan Opera tenor Raul Melo and the New York City Opera baritone Peter Castaldi, ac...
Anthony V. Riccio's New Oral Histories Collection Illuminates Experiences of Italian American Working Women
In the first half of the twentieth century, Italian American women were born into a life of work. From as young as four or five years old, they were expected to assist in the house or on the farm, leaving school if necessary, to help support the family. The stories of these women, who could keep up with any man, have been mostly provided b...
Relaunched Mill Has American Heritage and Italian Know-How
by Alison A. Nieder A 19th-century textile mill in northern Connecticut is currently humming with the activity of 40 looms making woolen and worsted fabrics for the American luxury market. The mill, founded as Warren Stafford in Stafford Springs, Conn., has been reopened and relaunched as American Woolen Co., a company with about 25 e...