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Each year the Vermont Italian Cultural Association awards up to three grants to individuals seeking to broaden their knowledge of Italian culture. In 2024, VICA named one of these grants to honor retired Senator Patrick Leahy, whose maternal grandparents immigrated to Vermont from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The Leahys have been VICA...

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Vermont Italian Cultural Association was honored to welcome Chef Mario Marini to Vermont as part of his recent visit to Boston. Marini is a chef and master butcher who traveled from Parma, a city in the heart of Emilia-Romagna. The region is sometimes referred to as the "breadbasket of Italy" because of its extensive agricultural production and ric...

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The Vermont Italian Cultural Association (VICA) announced today that it will host Carnevale on March 8, a fundraiser to benefit its Scholarships and Grants Program. VICA’s Carnevale, the first since 2005 will be held at the Essex Resort and Spa in Essex Junction from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will include a silent auction, music, dancing, food, wine,...

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Many of the Italians who came to Vermont in the late 1800s and early 1900s left their homeland to work in the granite, marble, and slate quarries. One of those who settled in Northfield in 1904, at the age of 15, was Stanislau Tucci. Hailing from the small town of Marzi in Cosenza, Stanislau learned to carve stone in the Northfield sheds. He met an...

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Sunday, December 15, 2 p.m. Saint Michael’s College Chapel, VT; FREE. Vermont Italian Cultural Association, cofounder Dr. William Tortolano will perform a Christmas concert on December 15th in the Saint Michael’s College Chapel on the Winooski campus. He will play on the classic 1966 Casavant pipe organ which was designed by Dr. Tortolano and is de...

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The Vermont Italian Cultural Association (VICA) has named one of our three annual scholarships in honor of VICA members, retired Senator Patrick Leahy and his wife, Marcelle Leahy. The naming recognizes the Leahy’s enduring commitment to promoting and sharing Italian history and cultural heritage in Vermont. The Leahys have been VICA members since...

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On a glorious sunny spring day this past May, just before Mother’s Day, a group of Vermont Italian Cultural Association members and our guests gathered at the hilltop gates of Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont. We crowded close together encircling Giuliano Cecchi-nelli, the sole remaining Italian-born stone carver in Barre. Coming from more than 20 g...

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Being a recipient of the Vermont Italian Cultural Association’s grant opened a great opportunity for my personal growth and an amazing experience for my career as an opera singer. With the generous help of the association I was able to attend the summer program “Classic Lyric Arts of 2024” in Novafeltria, Italy, and spend one month immersed in the...

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Puccini workshops at Vermont public schools; a concert of Italian arias and songs; and a first-hand report from Florence, Italy’s Medici Archive Project are the ways in which the three 2024 recipients of VICA’s Scholarships and Grants program will promote Italian culture in Vermont. “Each year we are impressed by the passion and talent of the appli...

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A prominent feature of the Brattleboro Water System is the Pleasant Valley Reservoir. It was constructed in 1909 and has become the main source of public water for the community. In September 1909, the Vermont Phoenix wrote, “Any person who has not visited the site of the reservoir which is being constructed in Pleasant Valley as a storage basin fo...

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