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by Dawn Diangelo The library will host a special presentation on Wednesday, October 28 from 7:00-8:30pm. Elena Florenzano takes you on a journey through time, a time when Italian immigrants settled in the New York Metropolitan area from Sicily, Calabria and Campania.   The journey begins at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th cen...

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Come eravamo noi italiani quando "Lamerica" si scriveva senza apostrofi e il miraggio di una vita dignitosa si concretizzava al di là dell'Atlantico. Milioni di persone, di molte regioni italiane, scelsero il Nuovo Mondo per un progetto di vita, per vivere meglio, per costruire un futuro.   Oltre 500 fotografie inedite da cui riemergono rico...

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During my last trip to the US, thanks to my good friends Roberta and Robert DiBiase I had the opportunity to meet a wonderful Italian American woman, who is a true icon for the community in New Jersey: Gilda Rorro Baldassari. I found very interesting and important to start this new year offering our readers the story of this proud Italian personal...

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Easter is a joyous time for Christians around the world, an event that represents the triumph of life over death. Before that momentous Sunday, however, a brief but intense period of mourning commences, culminating on Good Friday, the day Christ was crucified, died and was buried.   For centuries, towns and villages across Italy have express...

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by Cookie Curci   During the great influx of Europeans to America, thousands of Italian immigrants came to the Santa Clara Valley. Word of California's fertile orchard lands had beckoned them to leave their impoverished towns and regions of Italy and travel to the "Golden State". They had heard tales that the streets of California were...

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di Gianni Pezzano   Quando parliamo degli emigrati italiani in giro per il mondo e dei loro discendenti pensiamo subito alle partenze e agli sforzi fatti per trovare una vita nuova. C'è però un aspetto che pochi conoscono.   Chi è emigrato con successo ha voluto chiamare nel nuovo Paese di residenza parenti e compaesani. Di conseguenz...

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The Sons of Italy is pleased to announce the addition of a new title to "Our Story: The Italian American Video Collection." The newest film in this collection, "Immigrant Son" is the story of John Mezzogiorno's journey to make sense of his past. Centering on Italian immigration, John's exploration of his ancestral history takes viewers from the Bro...

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New York is no doubt the State with the highest number of Italian Americans in the country. Nevertheless, even if almost everybody seems to be interested just in New York City, in Upstate New York there is a huge Italian American population. In Albany, the Capital city of the Empire State, about 150 miles north to Manhattan there is plenty of them...

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Screening of an 80-minute-long preview of: PBS Mini-Series. Finding the Motherload (2013) Directed by Gianfranco Norelli, Produced by Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien. Followed by a Q&A with director/producers Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien   Italians first went to California in large numbers with the Gold...

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by Flavia Idà   Dear Editor, Immigrants are people of many contradic tions. Half of our soul is rooted in the shore from where we sailed, the other half in the shore where we landed. Having to navigate constantly between two different worlds is often uncomfortable and confusing.   Visitors need to deal with cultural differences f...

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