Sally Valenti (Vice President - Il Circolo The Italian Cultural Society of Palm Beaches)
I'm starting to see a pattern, a wonderful, very interesting pattern, in discovering that very often behind a cultural organization that celebrates Italy somewhere in the US, there's a force of nature embodied by an American woman of Italian heritage, proud of being both Italian and American. Italian American women have always been celebrated less...
Letizia Sirtori (International Tourism Sales Manager - Destination DC)
Letizia parla in prima persona plurale, quando si riferisce agli italiani. Potrà sembrare normale, essendo lei pienamente cittadina italiana, nata e cresciuta in Italia. Ed è normale, per lei. Ma non tutti i ragazzi mandati via dalla mala Italia che ogni giorno viviamo, hanno piacere a dimostrare che se c'è da fare sacrifici, sono parte del Paese,...
Davide Arminio (Journalist in New Mexico)
The discovery of traces of Italy in the vast American territory brings us today to somebody who can describe us the combination between Italy and New Mexico. Davide Arminio is an enterprising young Italian journalist, who has already been published in Italy and won a major journalism prize, who tells us about his experience as a young intern in Alb...
Philip R. Piccigallo (Executive Director - OSIA)
The first Italians who came to the US during the mass migration age spent their first years basically without any right. Some of them because they considered themselves "birds of passage": they came to the US with the full intent of making money and then come back to Italy. Some of them because they weren't interested in losing their Italian citize...
Gina Biancardi (Founder and President of Casa Belvedere)
When everybody thinks about New York, the first thought goes of course to Manhattan. And when everybody thinks about the Italians in New York, one may think about Little Italy, or East Harlem, or Arthur Avenue in The Bronx. But if you look at the percentage, the New York borough with the highest percentage of inhabitants of Italian heritage is defi...
Anthony Riccio (Writer)
Always around the 50 States searching for traces of Italy, today our trip stops in Connecticut. Among the things important to remember about Italians in Connecticut, we cannot fail to mention Ella T. Grasso: the daughter of Italian immigrant parents, in 1975 she was the first female to be elected governor of a US state (all three previous female go...
Debora Hill (Founder - Pallante Center for genalogy)
Tra gli Italiani d'America è molto popolare la ricerca genealogica del loro passato. Noi che siamo qui in Italia forse non lo percepiamo immediatamente, ma se ci pensiamo riusciamo a capire almeno in parte il desiderio, a volte quasi spasmodico, di ricercare le proprie origini, di capire la propria provenienza. Il passaggio tra le due sponde dell'A...
Charlotte Piazza (Curator of the Tontitown Historical Museum)
If you think that the story of the Italian explorers and the territory now called "United States of America" stops at Cristoforo Colombo and Amerigo Vespucci, you probably never heard about Giovanni Caboto (the fact that English is the language spoken in the US can be directly attributed to England's claims in North America, based on his voyages),...
Bill Dal Cerro (President of the Italic Institute of America)
With the exception of Louis Zamperini in 2014 "Unbroken", it has been almost impossible to find Italian American positive characters in the Hollywood storytelling of last decades. While Italian Americans have proved their talent and their hardworking attitude with an exceptional positive contribution to American society, economy, culture in any pos...
Mary Jo Gagliano (Author of "La Storia: Birmingham's Italian community")
It is known that millions of Italian immigrants went to the big cities on the two coast: but some of them spread all over the United States, looking for a place to start a new life. Those who went to smaller and less known places, in smaller but not less important communities, had an experience that is similar but at the same time different than th...
Michael Bonasera (Co-founder History of Italian Immigration Museum)
Philadelphia is not only a fundamental historical place for the history of the United States, but also one of the most important American cities for the Italian community in America. Actually, the whole Pennsylvania has been the point of arrival for hundreds of thousands of Italians. Now, on june 1, on the occasion of the celebrations for Italy...
Walter Potenza (Founder of Federal Hill Heritage Center in Providence)
Italians in Rhode Island have a long history to be told. The smallest State of the Union welcomed several fellow Italians: most of them arrived to Providence's Little Italy, Federal Hill (also called "the heartbeat of Providence"). In particular, the jewelry and silverware industry in Providence attracted Italian immigrants to Rhode Island at the t...