The Sons & Daughters of Italy Lodge in Ocean City, Md., is well-known for its annual St. Joseph’s Festival in the spring, where traditional homemade Italian foods were sold for 10 consecutive years, until COVID hit. The festival, held to raise money for lodge charities and high school scholarships, had to be canceled.

Not willing to concede to the pandemic, the lodge has planned a mini-festival for Oct. 9. Festa Piccola will offer many of the traditional foods and bakery items that lodge members have cooked and sold at the St. Joseph’s Festival, but for carryout only.