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New street signs this past year were placed to designate a new Honorary Historic District in Merced. The area is referred to as “Spaghetti Acres.” The area is roughly between Bear Creek to the west, R St on the east, 16th St on the south and 26th St and Bear Creek to the north. This area has many years of history dating back to the early 1920s when...

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Even if you don’t speak Italian, you can make a decent guess at the meaning of the word mangiamaccheroni. The tricky bit is that maccheroni refers not to the pasta English-speakers today call macaroni, tubular and cut into small curved sections, but to pasta in general. Or at least it did around the turn of the twentieth century, when i mangiamacch...

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Vincenzo Mancuso, documentary filmmaker of the Trentini community and friend of the Circolo, is releasing a new film: "Trentini Americani: From Wallace to Seattle, the Community of the Northwest". It will be broadcast this Thursday, January 30 th at 9 PM in Italy, noon Pacific Time, on Channel 12 of Trentino Digital TV and the HistoryLabLive page o...

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Rena Buhr was just three years old when her father, Willman King, suffered a massive heart attack "and was told he'd never work another day in his life," she recalled recently, adding that the trauma of that experience affected her father's health irreparably in the years that followed. Though he survived for another 17 years, dying in December 198...

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The screening at the UN of the stunning new film, Cabrini, portraying the hardships faced by vulnerable migrants moving to New York City at the turn of the last century, provides a timely reminder that there’s still much that needs to be done to help vulnerable people on the move everywhere today. That’s the message from the star of the film, Crist...

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Joe Gale is a great example of the fire, heart and independence borne from our Italian blood. His mom Roseanne Tramo Gale’s grandparents, the Testas and Bonannos, emigrated to the United States from Sicily, and settled in South Philadelphia. The Tramos’ son, Carmen “Charles” Tramo, moved to Overbrook with his wife Marie where they kept their tradit...

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Marco Perugini, formerly of Oakville, has published the book, “A Tribute To My Father: Everything is Italian.” Mr. Perugini invites readers into a deeply personal memoir that captures the essence of his father, Salvatore Perugini, an Italian immigrant whose life left an indelible mark on those who knew him. Through a collection of heartfelt micro-s...

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With February being the love month, I would like to take this opportunity to share some of the reasons I love Italy throughout the year from my travel experiences. My admiration for this beautiful country is deeply rooted in my family history. My maternal grandmother, Lucia Nobilio, embarked on her journey to America in the early 1920s for an arran...

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Many communities across Somerset County have a strong Italian-American heritage, and All Saints parish invites to attend a presentation by an Italian-American author and historian. Stephanie Longo, an assistant professor at Penn State-Scranton and an expert in the Italian-American history of Northeastern Pennsylvania, will speak at 2 p.m. Sunday at...

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Italy’s "Rientro dei Cervelli" program, or Return of the Brains, is a tax incentive aimed at attracting highly skilled foreign workers and expatriates back to the country. Introduced to stimulate economic growth and innovation, the scheme provides significant tax breaks to those who relocate to Italy for professional purposes. What Is Rientro dei C...

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