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By Kayla J. Marsh   As a child, Gloria Bucco remembers her father telling her stories about older relatives who left Italy to settle in the small town of Matawan, New Jersey.   "Stories are an important part of life, we tell them all the time and sometimes don't even know it," she said in an interview Aug. 17. "My father very much wan...

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di Domenico Azzia   Nel progetto di servizio, di informazione e di conoscenza alla comunità, riportiamo l'intervista a Francesca Mignosa, delegata di Sicilia Mondo da 15 anni in Ohio (USA) 34 anni, nata in provincia di Siracusa da mamma Americana e papà Siciliano. 16 anni vissuti in Sicilia, 18 anni in America.   Già Direttrice di Com...

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The Islands of Divine Music, by John Addiego, is a saga of an Italian-American family spanning six generations as they move from Southern Italy to San Francisco to Mexico. I was absolutely enthralled with the lyrical journey on which I found myself. The author took me back to some familiar places and events of my childhood while introducing me to a...

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What comes to mind when you hear the words "New Mexico?" Perhaps it's Mexican food, or chili ristras, or Southwest adobe style – in short, something to do with Hispanic heritage. But not for Rosalba Maniaci who, since 2009, has served as Corrispondente Consolare for the Italian Consulate of Los Angeles. Instead when Rosalba thinks "New Mexico," she...

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È dedicata alla storia della nascita degli Stati Uniti d'America la lezione magistrale che il professor Mario Del Pero terrà agli studenti nell'aula magna dell'Istituto Guarini a Modena domani 6 aprile.   L'intervento del professor Del Pero, docente di Storia delle relazioni internazionali all'Università di Bologna, sarà incentrato sul tema...

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In occasione del 120 anniversario della fondazione del Touring Club Italiano (1894-2014), si terrà a Milano dal 13 marzo al 25 maggio la prestigiosa mostra "In viaggio con l'Italia" che riprende l'iniziativa nata il 16 luglio 2013 con la firma del Protocollo d'Intesa "Farnesina e Touring Club: nel mondo per l'Italia".   L'iniziativa si propo...

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10. To Have CourageBetween 1861 and 1985, 29,036,000 Italians emigrated to other countries. Poverty was the main reason for their leaving. They risked everything in emigrating to a new country. Usually moving across the ocean at a time when Ocean Travel was precarious at best only to find that they had much Prejudice and hardship to overcome when t...

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"Italian Americans of the Mahoning Valley," an exhibit designed by Youngstown State University senior Paula Schaefer, opens at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor on Thursday.   A reception is scheduled 5 to 7 p.m. at the Historical Center, also known as the Steel Museum. The museum, a site of the Ohio Historical Society a...

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For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have b...

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di Daniela Garutti   Ci lasciamo alle spalle Lake Village, in Arkansas, esattamente come fece a fine Ottocento una parte delle famiglie italiane in fuga dalle troppo dure condizioni di vita e di lavoro. A guidarli c'era il prete forlivese father Pietro Bandini, il quale aveva individuato una zona più favorevole all'insediamento, circa 300 m...

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