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Un bambino bilingue è anche colui che parla italiano e dialetto oppure possiamo definire tale solo chi parla due lingue distinte come l’inglese e italiano? Dal punto di vista linguistico e cognitivo non c’è nessuna differenza tra l’uso di due forme o sistemi linguistiche, esiste invece un atteggiamento politico-sociale che riconosce una lingua più...

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Historically, Brooklyn has always been a very popular destination for the Italian emigration to the US. Many places in Brooklyn were and some of them still are populated by many Italians. Now that this borough is getting cooler and cooler, it still is fundamental for the narration of the Italians in New York. The Federation of Italian American Orga...

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Saturday June 9, 6PM to 8PM EDT. I Am Books - 189 North St, Boston 02113 Marisa Frasca is a bilingual poet, translator, book reviewer and the author of Via Incanto: Poems from the Darkroom. Her work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Maria Terrone, poetry editor of the journal Italian Americana, is the author of the poe...

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Saturday June 2, 4pm - 6 pm EDT. I Am Books - 189 North St, Boston 02113. Double author event celebrating two Italian American communities. Anthony Riccio - From Italy to the North End. Taken together, the photographs in From Italy to the North End document the arc of the Italian American experience on both sides of the Atlantic. Stephanie Longo -...

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To wrap up the celebration of La Corsa dei Ceri, the Lackawanna Historical Society will host a presentation and book signing for “Images of Modern America: Italians of Lackawanna County” by Stephanie Longo at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 10 at the Catlin House, 232 Monroe Ave. The book features color images of the Italian community in Lackawanna County, fro...

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Every year,  St. Peter’s Fiesta committee members try to do something special to mark the festival which takes place annual at the end of June. The special happening this year will be the release of "Nonna, What is St. Peter’s Fiesta?" The illustrated children’s book shares the meaning of the traditions of Gloucester’s St. Peter’s Fiesta and is sch...

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Avevo invitato più volte mio papà a venirmi a trovare durante il mio semestre a Cambridge, ma fosse avarizia fosse pigrizia, declinava sempre l’invito. Finché, curiosando come al suo solito per le bancarelle di libri usati, non si è imbattuto in un volume tascabile nel quale, sulla pagina di risguardo, il primitivo proprietario aveva annotato fra v...

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Philadelphia Eagle alumnus Joe Pagliei has released his debut book, titled Joe Pagliei: The Roast Master. A real-­life Zelig, Joe’s story begins during the Depression Era, in a humble steel-­mining town in Western Pennsylvania where he lived under the same roof as the local neighborhood numbers runner. From that colorful beginning, Joe went on to l...

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Because of her friendship with Ralph Liguori, Rosemary Valenti Guarnera crafts an eye-opening and compelling biography of a man who had social connections with famous celebrities and gangsters during the ROARING ‘20s – making some poor choices in his life. Through Liguori’s fastidious memories and the author’s careful research, she reveals the part...

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One Staten Islander woman has put together a series of poems based off of her unique upbringing in both Brooklyn and Staten Island. Maria Giura, a New Springville native for the past 20 years, has compiled a series of her most notable poems in a recently released book titled, What My Father Taught Me. Giura will be reciting the works featured in he...

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