Please join us in welcoming back author Paul Paolicelli, the author of “Under the Southern Sun” and “Dances with Luigi”. He gave a talk to the society a few years ago

Two students of Italian at Annapolis High School won first prize in a contest that the Italian Embassy in Washington sponsored this past fall to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci.

They say timing is everything. That was certainly true in my case, beginning with the first day in mid-October when I landed at the airport in Catania, Sicily. Just two days earlier, the airport had been closed due to nearby Mt. Etna’s volcanic eruptions

Our first AMHS program of the year will get us off to a great start, with wellknown author Paul Paolicelli speaking on the subject of “How Italians Changed America.” The meeting will be held on January 26, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. at Casa Italiana.

As of December, the society has 234 members, up from 228 in October

Approximately 100 AMHS members and guests filled the hall of Casa Italiana on November 17, 2019, to sample the craft of the Washington Winemakers, as the society ended its meeting schedule on an upbeat note.