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  WTI Magazine #50    2014 December, 26Author : Associazione Bellunesi nel Mondo      Translation by:   Numerous Italians emigrated to the U.S.A. between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century to seek their fortune. Many of them came from the region of Veneto and from the province of Belluno, even if America was not on...

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  WTI Magazine #41    2014 July, 30Author : Giglio Society of East Harlem      Translation by:   A continuing united effort is underway between our Brother's and Friends in Brusciano, Italy the birthplace of the East Harlem Giglio Feast and The Giglio Society of East Harlem (www.eastharlemgiglio.org). The Festa Del Giglio In Honor of Sant' Anton...

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  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Nicola Bergamo      Translation by: John Cabot University   I grew up fascinated by the United States, just like all my peers who lived through the Cold War since childhood. At the time, there was the division between good and bad, between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and oppression,...

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  WTI Magazine #56    2015 March, 20Author : Kristi Belcamino      Translation by:   I'm proud to be Italian-American so naturally when I sat down to write my first book, Blessed are the Dead, my protagonist had to be, as well. Gabriella Giovanni, the main character in my mystery series, is a second-generation Italian-American newspaper reporter...

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  WTI Magazine #28    2014 May, 1Author : Sandra Tornberg      Translation by:   On March 28 the Italian Heritage Society and the Federazione Abruzzese del Michigan (FADM) sponsored the Michigan première of the film La Mia Strada ("My Road"), a beautiful feature-length documentary by Michael Angelo DiLauro.    

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  WTI Magazine #61    2015 May, 29Author : Jim McKenna      Translation by:   This is my great grandmother Rosa holding me as a baby in 1967. While is one of my first memories of her, the mystery of where she (born Rosa Nigro) and my great grandfather Pietro Maiurro came from in Italy has lingered in my head and heart for 47 years. As I grew old...

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  WTI Magazine #30    2014 May, 15Author : Bette Cadwell      Translation by:   From pictures of an early 1900's wedding held at St Mary's in the French Quarter, to the fresh catch-of -the-day being peddled at the French Market, the contributions of Italian Americans are embedded in the fabric of New Orleans.  

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  WTI Magazine #44    2014 October, 1Author : Joe Carella      Translation by:   Ever since the Italian American Museum (IAM) in New York City's Little Italy put the original shipbuilder's model of the SS Giuseppe Verdi on exhibit in May, it has been searching nationally for passengers who might still be alive and who were among the more than 70...

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  WTI Magazine #45    2014 October, 15Author : Eszter Vajda      Translation by:   "You, Me & Sicily!" is a TV program that sprang from conversations that I had in the winter of 2014 with author/attorney Alfred Zappala in Massachusetts. Alfred has written 3 books (4th one out in December) on Sicily. He also lives and practices law in Catania 7 m...

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  WTI Magazine #65    2015 July, 24Author : Giuseppina Dede      Translation by:   Maybe you are wondering... Museo del Cognome? What could it be? This is not the first time I heard these questions but well, you are right, you are curious and curiosity is often something good and I think you will be more curious after reading what I am going to...

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