Italian professional soccer club runs youth camp in Ogden
by Ryan Comer Genoa FC is an Italian professional soccer club that has been in existence for almost 125 years. This year marks the first year the soccer club, which competes in the highest level of the Italian soccer ranks, has made its way to the United States to scout talent – and Ogden was the second stop on its three-week trip. &...
House Aide Excited to Welcome Everyone to Italo-American Club
The National Italian American Foundation and nascent Italian American Congressional Staff Association are teaming up Thursday for a meet-and-greet featuring food, drink and just a touch of nostalgia. The Wine-Off Tasting event is scheduled to take place in Rayburn 2168 from 6 to 8 p.m. and is open to all congressional staff. Read...
IT and US: Hereford, TX, forced home of 5,000 Italian soldiers
WTI Magazine #66 2015 August, 21Author : Giuseppe Clemente Translation by: The south-west US is known for his wide open spaces, oil fields, cattle herds, country music, but almost nobody knows that the Texas prairie was part of Italian history in WW2. Italian history that is forgotten and covered by the West Texas red dust: Hereford,...
Studies Reveal Ethnic Pride Linked to-success in Youth
Researchers combed through the abstracts of over 6,000 studies to analyze how positive a person feels about their own race or ethnicity. In a meta-analysis published Feb. 3 in the journal Child Development, researchers concluded that feelings of ethnic pride and happiness in youths positively affect their behavior and academic success. ...
Pursuing Our Italian Names Together, Chapter 22, Milwaukee Meeting Reminder and Genealogy Event Announcement
by George Koleas We are Pursuing Our Italian Names Together, Chapter 22. We are also known as and the Italian Family History Club at the Italian Community Center and Milwaukee County Genealogical Society's Italian Area Interest Group. Our next meeting will be held on September 19, 2015, at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago...
So There’s a Big Italian Food Festival Hitting Hollywood This Weekend
Get ready to celebrate all things Italian at Hollywood's Feast of San Gennaro, back celebrating their 14th anniversary this year on September 25 through 27. Inspired by the 80-plus year old New York City tradition, the Feast will celebrate Italian culture through entertainment and cuisine, featuring delicious food, music, genealogy research an...
Supereroi italiani e italoamericani dei fumetti Marvel e DC Comics
by Kati Irrente Conoscete tutti i nomi dei supereroi italiani e supereroi italoamericani esistenti? Nella sterminata galassia di supereroi Marvel Comics e DC Comics siamo andati a cercare i supereroi italiani e italoamericani che sono protagonisti di fumetti molto apprezzati dal pubblico per questa speciale carrellata di eroine e supereroi...
Remains of Catholics' youngest saint coming to Chicago
by Manya Brachear Pashman The remains of the youngest saint canonized by the Roman Catholic Church are expected to arrive in Chicago at dawn Monday as part of a 16-state tour during her first visit to the U.S. St. Maria Goretti, an 11-year-old Italian girl stabbed to death while resisting a sexual assault more than a century ago,...
A Look at the 2015 Fiaccolata di San Rocco in Astoria, Queens
By Giovanni di Napoli Saturday, October 17th, I returned to Astoria, Queens for the highly anticipated Societá Gioventú Quagliettana's Annual Fiaccolata di San Rocco. I've been attending the torchlight procession for several years now and, thanks to the warmth and hospitality (not to mention the strong devotion) of the members, it continues to be...
Giant, $5,000 Italian white truffle hits Capitol Hill restaurant
By Jessica Yadegaran Precious Italian white truffles have a very short season--October to December--and when they are sent to America they usually end up at restaurants in New York, Chicago or San Francisco. But, this time, a rare, round, giant white truffle--the largest to be found in Italy so far this season--has been purchased by Altura, the It...
Nuovo CGIE, Arcobelli a ItaliaChiamaItalia: sogno un Consiglio snello e flessibile
di Ricky Filosa Vincenzo Arcobelli alle recenti elezioni CGIE è risultato il più votato negli Stati Uniti. Farà parte quindi del nuovo Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all'Estero, una sfida tutta nuova che il coordinatore del CTIM in Nord America è pronto a raccogliere. Arcobelli, per anni presidente del Comites di Houston, non h...
The Mnemoteca di Sessa Aurunca (Caserta) – Italy
The Mnemoteca di Sessa Aurunca is located in two rooms of the Ducal Castle and contains a collection of the letters written by family members from 1917 to 1941; they were inhabitants of Sessa Aurunca who emigrated to the Americas (United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay). When, during the tragic years of World War II, assistance f...