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The Columbus Day Parade in New York City is the largest celebration of Italian-American culture in the United States. The position of Grand Marshal is an important one. Joe DiMaggio, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren all served as Grand Marshals of past parades. Sandra Bookman sat down with this year's Grand Marshal, Mike Strianese who will lead the...

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Tuesday Octber 22 at 6PM. Columbus Citizens Foundation 8 East 69th Street, NYC. Very few people know that two important monuments in New York City were created in Rome by New Yorker Emma Stebbins, the 19th century designer of Angel of the Waters at Bethesda Foundation in Central Park and Christopher Columbus, the statue adjacent to the New York Sta...

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Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO, one of Italy’s finest cured hams, takes the spotlight at this year’s NYC Wine & Food Festival. Thanks to the European co-funded project “The EU Gem Ham”, Prosciutto di Carpegna PDO will offer festival-goers a chance to savor centuries of Italian tradition at the Grand Tasting Pavilion from October 18th to 20th, and at an...

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It’s Italian Heritage Month. There is no better time to hold an event honoring Italian heritage in our region. It’s precisely why we formed the Italian American Heritage Society of Long Island – (ITALI). The more we unite as a heritage group, the more we can honor the past and inspire the future.  None of this is groundbreaking or innovative. I car...

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Ferraro Foods, a leading distributor of Italian specialty food products, is excited to announce the acquisition of Botticelli Food Service, the distribution arm of Botticelli Foods, a family-owned importer of high-quality Italian ingredients. The deal further solidifies Ferraro Foods’ leadership in supplying pizzerias and restaurants across the tri...

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A new museum celebrating Italian-American heritage will open in Little Italy next week on the annual holiday celebrating the green, white and red. The Italian American Museum will open to the public on Monday, Oct. 14, the Columbus Day holiday, at 151 Mulberry St. It will house three exhibitions that celebrate Italy and Italian-American culture. Th...

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The City of Binghamton (NY) is gearing up for the upcoming long weekend with a tradition that’s lasted over six decades. This Monday is Binghamton’s Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival, to take place in Downtown Binghamton, beginning at 9 a.m. with the raising of the Italian flag outside of city hall. The grand Marshall this year is the former...

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Since 1937, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day a federal holiday, every year we have been commemorating Christopher Columbus making landfall in the Americas on Octo­ber 12, 1492. This year the celebration falls on Monday, October 14, in recogni­tion of Columbus’ – and Europe’s – dis­covery of the entire other half of the w...

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The historic St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in Manhattan was vandalized over the weekend, with offensive graffiti and symbols defacing a church wall and a statue of the saint, according to police reports on October 8. The attack was discovered on October 6, and involved a profanity directed at Jesus and “several bizarre symbols” scrawled in black spray...

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By day, the stone-faced building to which some refer as Mission of the Immaculate Virgin presents a scenic backdrop to the annual Italian Festival at Mount Loretto. Come dusk under spotlights, the church glows red and green for a further reminder of the Columbus Day weekend, or as it is also know -- Indigenous People’s Day.  This year’s Italian Fes...

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