Un cowboy reggino campione del mondo di 2X20 in South Dakota
Dalle pendici d’Aspromonte in Brianza, passando per l’America, fino a conquistare il tetto del mondo nella disciplina “Prova 2X20”, suggestiva disciplina a cui prendono parte due cavalieri e una mandria di 20 vitelli, in cui l’obiettivo principale è quello di riuscire, con il proprio cavallo, a separare dalla stessa mandria i due capi con il numero...
John E. Nevola’s The Final Flag
Auguri to NIAF Member John E. Nevola for his new book The Final Flag, a historical novel that details the degrading treatment of Italian Americans during World War II. While the U.S. Government drafted Italian American young men to fight overseas, the Government also arrested and jailed without due process, interned, seized properties and forced re...
Italy in October
In earlier times, the month of October was considered the beginning of slow season, since prices would fall and tourists would begin to fly back home. Those days, however, have become history in most tourist areas of the country. When it comes to tourism, both April and October are considered two of the busiest months in Italy and one should not a...
U.S. importers stockpile Parmigiano, Provolone as tariffs on EU cheeses loom
Ambriola Co Inc’s mammoth warehouse in West Caldwell, New Jersey, is crammed full of boxes and wheels of harder cheeses such as Parmigiano Reggiano, Pecorino Romano and Grana Padano - and more is coming, lots more. Phil Marfuggi, president and chief executive officer of Ambriola, a unit of Auricchio SpA, one of Italy’s largest cheese producers, is...
Big success for the inaugural charity golf outing of the Italian American Baseball Foundation (IABF)
The Italian American Baseball Foundation (IABF) held its inaugural charity golf outing on Monday, September 9 at the exclusive Ramsey Golf & Country Club in Ramsey, NJ. You couldn’t ask for a more perfect late summer day to host 80 golfers and guests from the tri-state area. The outing was emceed by Emmy-award winning on-air talent Matt Stucko of Y...
Delaware embraces Bellanca roots
On July 30, Gov. John Carney signed a bill affording historic status to the Bellanca Cruisair, a fast and sightly single-engine taildragger that debuted in the 1930s and was manufactured in a series of models before and after World War II at a factory built by aircraft designer Giuseppe Bellanca in New Castle, Delaware. The factory was built in 192...
Prominent Italian-American Organization awards scholarships to NJ medical school, Seton Hall law school students
The Columbian Foundation will host their 78th Annual Humanitarian, Achievement, and President’s Awards Dinner on Saturday, October 19 at 7:00pm in Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Road Whippany, NJ 07981. Honorees include Edward Cetnar, Superintendent/Director of Public Safety, Port Authority of NY/NJ; Jack Ciattarelli, former New Jersey Assemb...
Myths and legends of Italy Campania – Parthenope and the foundation of Naples
Vedi Napoli e poi mori, once you’ve seen Naples, you are free to die. It may sound unsettling at first, but whoever visited the city can testify it is so special, so unique and so precious it could well represent the climax of one’s life, at least when it comes to beauty. Naples, with its noise that becomes music, its crumbling buildings and majes...
Great Barrington to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
The town last week became the sixth in the state to officially replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrated on the second Monday of every October. On Sept. 23, Select Board members signed a proclamation that made the change, and will, in future, coincide with events and celebrations to honor the indigenous people of the Berkshires a...
Osteria Crescendo Reviewed: A Symphony of Fine Flavors
Restaurant fans have come to know Robbie Felice as the chef and owner (along with his father) of the critically acclaimed Viaggio in Wayne, but his ambition has long reached farther. “On the first day Viaggio opened [in 2016],” he says, “I knew I wanted to open a second restaurant before I was 30.” He impressed even himself. Osteria Crescendo opene...
"People for Growth", l'associazione delle start-up italiane presentata a New York
“People for growth” (“Gente per la Crescita”) e’ l’associazione delle startup italiane presentata il 30 settembre a New York da Massimiliano Brustia, ceo e fondatore di Doralia (settore gioielleria) nella sede della Italian Trade Commission, a due isolati dal Consolato d’Italia sulla Park Avenue. L’organizzazione e’ alle prime battute, ma l’obietti...
Biblioteca stelle e strisce a Firenze
Un convegno nell’ambito delle celebrazioni del bicentenario del Consolato americano a Firenze, verrà ricordata la donazione della Biblioteca Nordamericana all’Università di Firenze, Mercoledì 9 ottobre 2019 alle ore 16, allo Spazio Rosselli, a Firenze. L’istituzione della Biblioteca Nordamericana presso l’Università di Firenze è del 1964 soprattut...