Val Camilletti dies at 78; ran Oak Park record store loved by music fans
Music lovers would walk into Val’s halla Records and say, “I heard this song I love, and it goes like this” — and start humming. Owner Val Camilletti could usually figure out the artist, the label and the pressing — sometimes, instantly. She died in hospice care early Tuesday at the British Home in Brookfield, about two years after being diagnosed...
Event schedule, road closures for Greater Youngstown Italian Fest this weekend
A popular summer festival is coming back to the Valley this weekend. The 33rd Annual Greater Youngstown Italian Festival starts Friday, August 3 through Sunday, August 5 in Central Square downtown. A press release detailed there will be road closures before and during the event. Phelps Street to Walnut Street, as well as Commerce Street to Boardma...
2018 Cleveland Little Italy Feast of the Assumption
August 15 noon to August 18 midnight EDT. Little Italy Village (12021 Mayfield Road), Cleveland, Ohio USA. The parish of Holy Rosary Church in Cleveland's Little Italy is ready to host the 120th Annual Feast of the Assumption starting Wednesday, August 15th, through Saturday, August 18th. The Festival is a celebration of the Catholic Holy Day, Augu...
Little Italy Fest-West Addison
August 2 5PM to August 5 9PM CDT. Onesti's Little Italy Fest-West in Addison - Centennial Park on Lake Street at Route 53, Addison (Illinois) 60101. Buy tickets here. The smell of garlic and the sounds of Sinatra, Prima and Valli will once again fill the air of Centennial Park (Lake Street at Rohlwing Road) as the Annual Little Italy Fest-West retu...
You Are There: 1943 Italian POWs at Atterbury
In one of our most moving You Are There exhibits to date, talk to Italian prisoners of war in the chapel they built at Camp Atterbury – their home away from home. In 1943, approximately 3,000 Italian POWs were held at Atterbury during World War II. That it held prisoners of war is surprising to many, but the legacy of this time period lives on as p...
Benvenuto alla festa
Whether it’s said in Italian — “Benvenuto alla festa” — or in English — “welcome to the festival” — it’s a phrase that those who love all things Italian wait the whole year to hear. And that wait is almost over. Members of the St. Rocco-St. Anthony Society of Ishpeming are making the final preparations for the 119th annual Italian Festival at the A...
2018 Italian-American of the Year honored at Undo's Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Dinner
Wheeling's waterfront will turn everyone who visits Italian, as the Undo's Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival started the weekend with a kickoff dinner at Undo's West in St. Clairsville, Wednesday night. Since 1983 the festival has celebrated everything of Italian heritage. This year's Italian-American of the year may not have an Italian s...
Italian Fest to be held Saturday
The Greater Ishpeming-Negaunee Area Chamber of Commerce announces the St. Rocco/St. Anthony Society Italian Fest will take place on Saturday at Al Quaal Recreation Area in Ishpeming. Admission is free and the public is welcome. Italian and American food and drink will be available beginning at noon. Daylong activities include: free pony rides, game...
Italian Fest opens July 27 at Festival Park
The 40th annual Roma Lodge Italian Fest returns to Festival Park, 5 Fifth St., Racine (WI) Friday through Sunday, July 27-29. This year’s festival is again all about traditional Italian foods, entertainment and family fun. To show its gratitude for 39 years of support by the community, Roma Lodge will again present fireworks from Bartolotta Firewor...
Niles family and food fuels success for 85th festival
It’s the homemade food and family feeling that keep people coming back generation after generation to prepare and consume Italian delicacies made from secret recipes for the Niles Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish summer festival. “All of our food is homemade from recipes, many handed down through families, that are literally locked up in the church...
41a Festa Italiana a Milwaukee, Francesca Alderisi (FI): “nei cuori pulsanti delle nostre radici”
“Ho voluto essere presente a questo appuntamento per confermare la mia vicinanza anche a quelle comunità italiane distanti dai grandi centri, meno raccontate e testimoni di una vecchia generazione di emigranti”. Queste le parole della senatrice Francesca Alderisi (FI), eletta nella Circoscrizione Estero, ripartizione Nord e Centro America, alla 41a...
National Guard Brigadier General John Fascia
John Fascia was born in Chicago and lived in the Italian neighborhood of Lexington Street and Kedzie Avenue for several years until the family moved near Homan Avenue and Roosevelt Road. His father, Leonard Fascia, immigrated from San Marco la Catola when he was 16 years old, and his mother, Antoinette Riccio, was born in Chicago. He has one sister...