Italian Heritage Center Exhibit with Chef Walter
Chef Walter Potenza joins us in the Studio today to take us on Tour of the Italian Heritage Center Exhibit. The only photographic collections of early Italian immigration in Rhode Island! Since 1886 Federal Hill in Providence Rhode Island has been one the centers for Italian immigration in the United States. Italian settlers replaced the Irish sett...
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WTI Events: October 29 2016 Presentation of We the Italians, the book in Providence, RI
October 29 2016 Providence, RI
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Chef Walter raising money for Italy earthquake victims
by Tony Gugliotta A relief effort for the victims of the Italian earthquake is already being started in Cranston by Chef Walter Potenza. "It makes you very uneasy. You can't go back to your own home. Just to think, someone died this morning," Potenza said. Chef Walter is offering Bucatini Amatriciana -- a dish created in the town at...
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Walter Potenza (Founder of Federal Hill Heritage Center in Providence)
Italians in Rhode Island have a long history to be told. The smallest State of the Union welcomed several fellow Italians: most of them arrived to Providence's Little Italy, Federal Hill (also called "the heartbeat of Providence"). In particular, the jewelry and silverware industry in Providence attracted Italian immigrants to Rhode Island at the t...
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