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June 2025 Italy in Buffalo, upstate New York, with Danielle Salasavage

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There’s a whole lot of Italy north of Manhattan. The New York State, for obvious reasons, is often associated with New York City, but it’s actually vast and diverse, and home to many Italian Americans - even in the area known as Upstate New York. One of the most important cities in this regard is Buffalo, right on the Canadian border. This is where...

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One of the recent referendums involving Italians concerned citizenship. Since the required quorum was not met, nothing has changed: the proposal to reduce the requirement for acquiring Italian citizenship from 10 to 5 years of uninterrupted legal residence in Italy for non-EU nationals currently living in the country has failed. But who are these p...

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Niagara Falls native Gabriel Porto was a proud Italian-American. His book, aptly titled “Memoirs of an Italian American”, was self published in 2023 on Amazon. As one might suspect, “Memoirs of an Italian American” is Gabriel Porto’s autobiography. Porto was a first generation Italian-American whose parents migrated to the United States in the earl...

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Former fighter squadron surgeon Michelle Parsons’ mama, Amanda Marconi, was born in Bologna, Italy. When Amanda was a young girl her family moved to Argentina, then as a young adult Amanda moved to America to attend college in Houston, Texas. There she met her husband Eugene, also an immigrant from Germany, who was working at NASA. Michelle was bor...

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One of the select few to qualify for and successfully complete Navy SEAL training, Anthony Lanzillotti embarked on an illustrious career that spanned 37 years and included five deployments, tours of duty in 10 countries and an assignment at the Pentagon. The older of two children, Anthony Lanzillotti was born in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicag...

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It's Opening Day for the Morton House Museum’s 2025 Season today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 501 Territorial Road, Benton Harbor, MI 49022. The Morton House Museum, “The Home of Benton Harbor History,” kicks off its 2025 season featuring this season’s exhibit: “Benton Harbor’s Little Italy: A Kaleidoscope of Cultures.”  The Little Italy neighborhood...

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Papa Leone XIV, il primo papa italoamericano Nuovi Consolati onorari italiani a Boise Idaho e a Cleveland Ohio Due nuovi collegamenti aerei inaugurati tra Italia e Stati Uniti: Roma-Denver e Napoli-Chicago  Il successo straordinario di Nonnas, il nuovo film di Netflix  La statua di Colombo rimossa da New Haven, Connecticut, trova finalmente una ca...

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May 2025 Happy 50th anniversary to the NIAF and welcome to John Calvelli, its new Chairman of the Board

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NIAF (National Italian American Foundation) is the most important organization representing the Italian American community, and this year it celebrates its 50th anniversary. 2025 is also a year of change for its Chairman of the Board, and since last April, this crucial role has been held by one of the best people I know: John Calvelli. John is an e...

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