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In un personalissimo testo, Martin Scorsese rievoca la New York e l'America della sua infanzia: feste, rituali e cibo in arrivo dal Sud Italia, il matrimonio dei genitori combinato per unire le famiglie provenienti dai paesini di Polizzi Generosa e Cimmina, la scelta/necessità del giovane Martin di varcare "il confine di Houston Street" per raccont...

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By Pamela Dorazio Dean and Serena Scaiola, Consul of Italy in Cleveland USA Today bestselling author Pamela Schoenewaldt will host two events in June at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The success of her first book presentation in 2011 prompted Hon.   Consul Serena Scaiola and WRHS Curator for Italian American History Pamela Dorazio...

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Emigration and religion are two words that are often, and properly, juxtaposed one to another, and the history of Italian emigration to the United States is no exception to this rule. Religion was for our emigrants a fundamental part in the beginning of their life in the new world, and remained so even in the continuation of their lives and for tho...

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"It was hot and humid that July day in1917, and the neighborhood odors were floating along on top of the muggy air.... Big Gino and his friend Franzini were walking to the bank to deposit the cash Big Gino had from yesterday's ice wagon routes. They stepped off the curb at the corner to cross the street. "Bruno, the teamster driving the loaded bee...

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Il Center for Italian Studies Lecture di New York informa che partirà dal 7 febbraio prossimo alle 18.00 una serie di letture su vari temi.   Protagonista del primo appuntamento sarà Marcello Saija, (Università di Palermo) che interverrà sul tema "Immigrazione Siciliana in America", con l'introduzione di Vincenzo Pascale Ph.D., coordinatore...

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Buffalo's West Side of the 1970s remains indelibly etched in my childhood memories because it was a simple yet prosperous time in Buffalo's rich, cultural history. It represented a special time when the West Side resonated with an old-country, Italian cultural flavor that was prominent in everything we did in our daily living.   Importantly,...

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Arriviamo in Louisiana dopo un giorno di guida attraverso le back-roads dell'Alabama e del Mississippi. Quando notiamo su entrambi i lati della strada distese di cotone pronto per essere colto, abbiamo la certezza di essere arrivati nel profondo Sud. La nostra meta è la Tangipahoa Parish dove ci aspettano due giorni di incontri con i discendenti d...

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Lo scrittore e fotografo italo-americano Anthony V. Riccio, dedica il suo ultimo libro alle donne.   Da sempre impegnato nel recupero di quella memoria storica di donne e di uomini, soprattutto del nostro Sud, strappati ai loro territori da povertà e fame e delle loro nuove vite in America, Anthony Riccio, si concentra in questo ultimo lavor...

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By Kayleen Cubbal  When Oreste Piroli left his Naples, Italy, home in 1910, his mother, Maria, made a prediction. "I know I'll never see you again," Maria told her 16-year-old son. She was right. Oreste left to follow his father, Felice, an Italian farmer, to the land of opportunity, putting down stakes in Beaver County, where he we...

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We will be offering 6 historical lectures this fall. All lectures and educational presentations will be on Wednesdays from 7:15 to 8:15 pm. All are free of charge and will be held in our new building at 468 Wheat Rd. in Vineland, NJ (behind Susquehanna Bank).   Lectures presented by Dr. DeMaio September 25: The History of Cumberland County,...

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