Austin working with Florence, Italy to promote partnership
Florence, Italy is over 5,600 miles away from Austin. Yet, the two cities share more in common than one would think. This fall, Austin and Florence entered into a “historic agreement” to facilitate educational, cultural and business collaborations. Cristiano Maggipinto is a diplomatic adviser to the mayor of Florence.“There were so many similaritie...
Treasures of Tuscany: Renaissance in Arezzo
Oct. 14, 2023 through Jan. 28, 2024. Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art - 555 Elm Avenue - Norman, OK. Nestled on a hillside in the heart of Italy lies Arezzo, Norman’s sister city and home to the university’s OU in Arezzo program. The Tuscan city has been the site of creative innovation for centuries. Between 1470 and 1530, Renaissance artists in Arezzo...
The White House Recognizes Columbus Day was a Result of the 1891 Massacre of Italians in New Orleans
On Columbus Day, Dr. Jill Biden invited approximately 250 Italian-American and Italian Leaders to the White House for a reception to honor contributions of Italian-Americans to America and Italy’s NATO and G-7 Partnerships to America. Attending from New Orleans were Charles Geno Marsala, President of the American-Italian Federation of the Southeast...
Lecture: "How the Italians of Sunnyside Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy over Ten Critical Years, 1891-1901"
Many folks in Northwest Arkansas know that Tontitown was founded by Italian immigrants who had first come to the United States lured by promises of land and opportunity at Sunnyside Plantation in Southeast Arkansas. Conditions at Sunnyside, though, fell far short of the promises, prompting several dozen families to migrate again to an area west of...
Charles Marsala invited to the White House for Columbus Day Reception with First Lady Jill Biden
On Thursday, Charles Marsala, President of the American-Italian Federation of the Southeast will be at the White House with 30 other national Italian-American Leaders as a guest of First Lady Jill Biden. Ms. Biden’s heritage is Sicilian from the Messina Region. For the second consecutive year, the White House’s Columbus Day Proclamation has acknowl...
Franco Valobra, Louisiana’s New Honorary Italian Consul, Honored at Grand French Quarter To-Do
ONE OF HOUSTON'S favorite personalities and businessmen — Franco Valobra, who divides time between here and New Orleans — recently celebrated a high honor in his other home state of Louisiana. He was named Louisiana’s Honorary Consul for Italy, and he threw a grand party at the new Italian Honorary Consulate in the French Quarter to celebrate. “The...
Columbus Day in New Orleans: Knights of Columbus Mass, Procession, & Reception
The City Council of New Orleans awarded a grant of $10,000.00 to a Committee of Fifty appointed by the mayor that purchased Winchester rifles to conduct the massacre. In 2019, Mayor Cantrell acknowledged the role the City Government of New Orleans played in the massacre and recognized the contributions of Italians to the city of New Orleans. The ev...
Tontitown: Arkansas's Italian Village (Where Red Sauce Meets Redneck!)
When most people think of Italian America, they probably think of the many famous East Coast Italian enclaves, but we've come to learn that some of the finest fruits of Italian influence in American life actually exist well off the beaten path. And few places we've visited, if any, bring the story of Italian immigration to life quite like Tontitown...
Austin enters ‘historic’ agreement with Florence, Italy
The City of Austin and Florence, Italy entered into a “historic agreement” to facilitate educational, cultural and business collaborations between the two cities, according to a city release Wednesday. The City of Austin’s Economic Development Department announced the signing of the Protocol of Cooperation Agreement. Officials noted international c...
DFW Italian Heritage & Food Festival
October 7 and 8. 5220 North O'Connor Boulevard Irving, TX. The DFW Italians are honored to present the inaugural Italian Heritage & Food Festival, the first of its kind, to the thousands of Italians that call Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex “casa” (home). The three-day event will also serve as an educational festival to the expected thousands of attend...
The Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston presents The Meaning behind the Masterpieces: Iconography in Italian Art
The Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston presents The Meaning behind the Masterpieces: Iconography in Italian Art, a three-part art history lecture series. Over three 1 1/2 hout sessions, the class will guide students through the long history of Italian art spanning from Ancient Rome through the twentieth century. By the end of our time t...
Italian Texans
The Italians in Texas constitute the sixth largest ethnic group in the state, according to figures from the U.S. census of 1990. In that year, when the total population of Texas was 16.9 million, the number of Texans who said they were Italian or part-Italian was 441,256. Many of these people arrived in the last half of the 20th century when Italia...