Anna Foultz presented with Sons of Italy Ameritan Award
By Greg Ellison After a lifetime of service, Ocean Pines community, stalwart Anna Foultz was honored by the Order Sons of Italy in America with its 2016 Ameritan Award during a gala in Hunt Valley on Oct. 22. "Every year they honor people, and you have to do something special to get it," she said. "I didn't know about it, I was in shock." &n...
Cookies for Santa! He’s coming to Serpe’s!
Serpe's, New Castle County's Italian Specialty Bakery, in Elsmere will celebrate its re-opening with a visit from Santa Claus from noon to 3 p.m. on Dec. 10. Assisting Santa will be Melissa Cannavo-Marino, the host of WILM's Sunday morning Italian-American music program "Mattinata Musicale." Children can meet and greet Santa while their m...
Simpatico to celebrate Columbus Day
Simpatico, Italy's Finest will host its fourth annual Columbus Day Celebration at St. Michaels from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, with Italian wine, food, art and games in honor of explorer Christopher Columbus. Columbus himself will be in attendance and will share tales of his adventures, as part of the festivities planned for adults and...
Colleagues, friends remember Export resident Pascuzzi
by Patrick Varine Every year, Dave Pascuzzi joined with his brother, Ken, to host a Christmas Eve party for friends and family. This year, the party went on as planned, despite Mr. Pascuzzi's death on Dec. 23. "It was a celebration of Dave's life," said Sherry Stover, manager at the Export Italian-American Club, where Mr. Pas...
Un italiano fra i 7 morti del treno deragliato
C'e' un italiano tra le vittime del disastro ferroviario accaduto sulla linea Washington-New York. Lo ha reso noto all'ANSA il console generale di Filadelfia, Andrea Canepari. La vittima si chiamava Giuseppe Piras ed era negli Stati Uniti per lavoro. Il console Canepari ha spiegato di essere venuto in contatto con la famiglia di Piras in Italia, ch...
A festival honoring the Madonna and family roots in the Cilento
On Saturday, May 30, 2015, at 11:30 a.m., at Holy Face Monastery, 1697 Route 3, Clifton, New Jersey, there will be celebrated a Solemn High Mass with Gregorian chant in honor of Our Lady of Sacro Monte of Novi Velia, Salerno. Following Mass there will be a grand procession on the monastery grounds with the statue of Our Lady, her canopy an...
Columbus Day parade in East Hanover to honor actor James Gandolfini
The late actor James Gandolfini, star of television's "The Sopranos," will be honored at the 9th Annual Morris County Columbus Day Parade sponsored by the East Hanover Italian American Club at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13 along Ridgedale Avenue from the fire house to Lurker Park. Parade spokesman and former East Hanover Mayor William Agnellino said he e...
Maryland’s classics department looks at connections between Rome and Washington
By John Kelly About 30 years ago, an Italian friend of ours visited. After a few days doing the tourist thing, he exclaimed: "I love Washington! It's like a Rome where everything works." I don't know what Adriano would think of D.C. today, when Metro breaks down routinely and Congress seems proud of its dysfunction. But I understood his p...
President’s Message Fall 2014
By William Schievella As you read this magazine Labor Day has passed and the Columbus Day holiday is upon us. Although Columbus Day commemorates the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus the holiday is now a celebration of the accomplishments of Italian Americans in our nation as well as Italian culture in our state. Althou...
Essex County Executive DiVincenzo Hosts Essex County Italian-American Heritage Month Celebration
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. hosted the 2015 Essex County Italian-American Heritage Month observance on Friday, October 9th in the lobby of the Essex County Hall of Records. Decorated in the festive Italian colors of red, white and green, the lobby was a standing-room only backdrop for the cultural festivities. During th...
Fiorella's Sausage: It's a living
by Danya Henninger When Luigi Fiorella was 19 years old, he left his parents' farm in Foggia, Italy, to try his luck in the New World. He gathered his savings, booked passage on a transatlantic ship, and landed in Philadelphia in 1892. Like many other Italian immigrants in South Philly, he began working as a butcher. In 1904, he p...
Delaware delegation visits Sister City in Tuscany
Members of the Delaware Commission on Italian Heritage and Culture were invited to Greve-in-Chianti, Italy, by Mayor Paolo Sottani to celebrate Verrazzano Day on April 17, and to re-dedicate the Delaware "Garden of the Navigators" located in that Sister City. This "American-style" garden was first constructed in 2012. It is dedicated to th...