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Memories to Memorial: The Internment of Ottawa’s Italian Canadians during the Second World War – Part 6 Family Memories of Internment Gino Tiezzi Italo Tiezzi was only seven years old, and his brother Silvio was eleven, when their father Gino Tiezzi was arrested…

Domenico Cellucci Italy has sent her sons and daughters to the four corners of the world for centuries. Italian emigration in the 18th and 19th centuries was especially substantial. Even before the country we now know as Italy was united, its inhabitants traveled…

By Dosi Cotroneo Recently I got to thinking. Why is it that the majority of Italian immigrants of my parents’ generation end up with dentures? I suppose the lack of education regarding oral hygiene, a global depression followed by a world war, could…

L’AQUILA – Massimo Cialente, per la seconda volta a palazzo Margherita, è il 24/mo sindaco eletto dell’era repubblicana, a partire dal 1948. I galantuomini suoi predecessori – almeno fino all’ultimo Tullio De Rubeis, 1980-1985 – furono impegnati nella ricostruzione economica, morale e intellettuale della…

CHIETI – In un clima di grande fiducia e impegno verso la comunità La Fondazione Carichieti annuncia l’imminente apertura delle collezioni permanenti al Museo Palazzo de’ Mayo. Dal 2 giugno 2012 saranno aperte al pubblico le sale che occupano l’intero secondo piano del…

Antonio Lofaro was born in Campo Calabro, Calabria, a small town near Reggio Calabria. In 1955, his parents, Giovanni and Maria, like so many other Calabrese in post-war Italy, moved the family to Canada looking for a better life. Antonio was about 18…

Pretoro, in the province of Chieti, is a town of about 1100 inhabitants, located on a steep hillside on the eastern side of the Maiella at an elevation of 1800 feet. Its proximity to the ski slopes of Passo Lanciano, only 6 miles…

“L’altra Italia”: storie d’emigrazione degli Italiani all’estero L’ultimo libro di Goffredo Palmerini presentato nel Nord-Est di Lia Di Menco * BELLUNO – Di solito sono gli amici cari quelli che spostandosi da un’estremità all’altra di un Paese, si vedono circondati dall’affetto di amici,…