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The Calandra Institute is pleased to host this inaugural master class with guest artist and author Annie Rachele Lanzillotto. MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP. Documenting Family Stories. Giving Voice to Our Ancestors and Ourselves Sunday, January 18, 2015 - 10 am/5 pm - $100 includes lunch at the Calandra Institute, Manhattan &n...

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by Mike Hughes   Over the past century or so, the U.S. has been energized by people from one small country. Or, actually, from a fraction of that country. PBS' "The Italian Americans" says most of the surge came from one piece of Italy.   It's "not the experience of Milan (or) Florence," said journalist Gay Talese. "It's not Rome...

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Moving to a new country can be an exciting adventure, particularly challenging if that place is the Silicon Valley. While seeing the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the favorite destinations, very few migrants want to give up on some connections with their homeland. This is also true for Italians, whose community in the bay has been growing very f...

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  WTI Magazine #53    2015 February, 6Author : Simone Sibillano      Translation by:   The curtains rise and the mazurka of grandpa Bartolomeo accompanies a dance that enters straight into our souls. Over the notes the characters show up and everyone immediately understand their joys, sorrows, worries and expectations: feelings that many Italian...

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by Jerry Carino   From 1885-1920, Italian immigrants flocked to big cities like New York, Philadelphia, Jersey City and Newark. They also came, in smaller but proportionately notable numbers, to Matawan.   Gloria Bucco seeks to preserve that slice of history -- and a historic mansion in her hometown -- with her new book "Precious Car...

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by Evan Andrews   On November 12, 1954, the once bustling immigration inspection port at Ellis Island was shut down after more than 62 years in operation. Opened in 1892, the small island in New York Harbor served as the processing center and point of entry for more than 12 million new arrivals to the United States.   The island has s...

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The multitude of Italians who ventured to the United States in steamships at the turn of the twentieth century carried more than their trunks and bags and bundles. They carried the culture and traditions of their ancestors.   When it came time to name their American-born children, however, the newcomers realized that no ancient custom of Ita...

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By Davide Arminio   Sixty years ago in Gallup, New Mexico, a new construction site sprang up. It wasn't a store, nor a house or a facility. It was the Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral, designed to become a city landmark, conceived and made possible by a large contribution of the local Italian community.   Gallup is a city born of both...

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A partire da domani, 23 gennaio, si terranno a Foggia, presso il Palazzetto dell'Arte, una serie di incontri ed eventi dedicati alla storia dell'emigrazione pugliese. La rassegna, intitolata "Pane Amaro - Storie di emigrazione" è stata organizzata dal Centro Studi Diomede e dall'Archivio "Fathers' Land" e vede il patrocinio dell'Assessorato al Wel...

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Presentation of the book: My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014), by Joseph Luzzi. A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, "Beautiful Land," where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to The...

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