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The Molfettese Dialect
As Italians are aware, the dialects of Italy reflect the rich and diverse historical landscape of the country throughout the millennia. No vernacular seems to puzzle Italians from other regions like...
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Outside the Strongbox: a discovery of my roots.
Going through my mother’s things after she died was an often painful process. Evidence of my immediate family’s history such as photographs, baptismal certificates, passports, honor roll records,...
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Your Italian Roots May Go Places You’ve Never Dreamed Of
If asked, the average Italian American’s knowledge of their roots is sketchy at best. “I know my relatives came from Sicily.” “We came from the north of Italy, not the south. “ “I think it was an...
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What’s In a Name?
“What’s in a name?” asked Juliet in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. She had just learned that her lover’s surname belonged to a family that was her parents’ enemy. Basically most people don’t...
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Indigenous Tribes of Italy
Apache, Cherokee, Sioux, Iroquois, Blackfoot. As Americans we have been exposed to the names of the indigenous peoples of the United States. We may not know all the names, since there were hundreds of...
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The Italian Christmas
It’s the Christmas season in America and the craziness has begun. Stores are decorated with the customary red and green. Artificial and real evergreen trees of every size are embellished with...
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At the Italian American Museum, Presepio Napoletano
Photography by Anita Sanseverino Presepio on loan from Federazione delle Associazione della Campania USA Photo exhibit by Anita Sanseverino, dedicated to the Presepio Napoletano (Neapolitan Style...
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Italians and Music – Perfect Together
Italians and music; they are inseparable. Throughout the millennia Italians have been devoted to music and their love has translated into the invention of instruments on which to interpret their...
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Food! Glorious food! Italians are what they eat.
Many of us have just celebrated the Christmas holidays and have tasted the delights of the season. Of course, that is if you remained in the areas with a large Italian-American population. If you...
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For the Cuisine of Europe, and a lot more… Thank Columbus
We have much to thank Columbus for, although in the U.S. there seems to be a trend to bash him. On October 12th the entire Hispanic world (Spain, Central America, South America, the Caribbean)...
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La Festa di Sant’Agata a Catania
Per me civitas Catanensium sublimatur a Christo: “Attraverso me, la città di Catania è innalzata a Cristo”. È questa la frase che campeggia sulle vestigia dell’Anfiteatro romano, testimone della...
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A Cherished Memory – Easter in the Land of My Ancestors, Molfetta (Bari), Italy.
When I reached 40 years of age, I started to witness changes in physical appearance, marital status and even death of those around me. These transformations gave me the impetus to act on a desire that...
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Celebrations of Italian Identity
Celebrations of Identity All over the United States celebrations of Italian identity are being held every single month of the year. The immigrants of the Mezzogiorno of Italy are dispersed around...
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IL TEATRO DEI PUPI (PUPPET THEATER)
New Orleans puppet As generations of Italian-Americans pass away, with them go the traditions that may never be replicated again. One tradition which struggles to survive is the Marionette theater...
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Christmas Dinners, Italian Americans and Etiquette
During the holidays, many images passed before me on the computer screen. I’m sure you’ve seen them too. Remember the silly video ‘Dominic the Donkey?’ Having been first released in 1960, it still...
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A carnevale ogni scherzo vale!
Così afferma un vecchio ritornello tramandato di generazione in generazione, che annuncia l’arrivo di una delle feste più allegre dell’anno. Da sempre amata dai bambini, e non solo, il carnevale è la...
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Meaning and origins of the “Quarantana,” a symbolic character of the Lent...
One of the most strange and traditional symbolic characters of Lent is the “Quarantana” (literally meaning forty days), an old lady looking puppet, that at the end of Carnevale is hung up in the...
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Food! Glorious food! Italians are what they eat.
Many of us have just celebrated the Christmas holidays and have tasted the delights of the season. Of course, that is if you remained in the areas with a large Italian-American population. If you...
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For the Cuisine of Europe, and a lot more… Thank Columbus
We have much to thank Columbus for, although in the U.S. there seems to be a trend to bash him. On October 12th the entire Hispanic world (Spain, Central America, South America, the Caribbean)...
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La Festa di Sant’Agata a Catania
Per me civitas Catanensium sublimatur a Christo: “Attraverso me, la città di Catania è innalzata a Cristo”. È questa la frase che campeggia sulle vestigia dell’Anfiteatro romano, testimone della...
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