We are excited to announce that AMHS has new t-shirts available for our membership. These custom shirts were recently released for sale at the Italian Festival on September 11,

Recently the Italian Government launched the Cammini d’Italia initiative to encourage tourism in lesser-known areas and reduce the number of tourists in overwhelmed cities such as Venice. In Italy, countless picturesque towns and landmarks go unseen,

The beautiful town of Fossacesia is located on a small hill on the left of the Sangro River's mouth, about 2 kilometers from the Adriatic Sea. The town has approximately 6,184 residents, known as Fossacesiani. Located in southeastern Abruzzo

On Sunday, December 3, 2017at 10:30 a.m., a Holy Mass was celebrated at Holy Rosary Church to commemorate the victims of the Monongah, West Virginia mining disaster (the Mass also honored Santa Barbara, the Patron Saint of the Marina Militare).

The AMHS awards a $4,000 scholarship every year to two students who have demonstrated strong academic performance and a keen interest in Italian language and studies.

When Quintino Cianfaglione came to Hartford, Connecticut from Abruzzo as a 20-year-old searching for the American dream, he probably never imagined that 50 years later, on a day he called “one of the most important” of his life, the dream had finally come true.

On Sunday, November 19, a group of seven AMHS members

participated in one of Osteria da Nino’s monthly wine pairing

dinners.

What are the odds that two couples – long-time friends and members of AMHS - vacationing in Portugal, would run into each other “out of the blue”.

At our November 12, 2017 program, new AMHS officers and board members were elected, and therefore it was our last program with Maria D’Andrea-Yothers as president. So some of the people who worked closely with Maria over her years as president, wanted to say a few words before the program began.

On a beautiful crisp fall day, 94 AMHS members and friends came together at Casa Italiana to enjoy our annual wine tasting and luncheon. Once again, the event proved to be an outstanding success, with 11 winemakers participating.

Finance and fashion are intertwined as the topic of our first program of the year on January 28, 2018, at Casa Italiana. Our speaker, Sara Gay Forden, lived in Milan for 22 years where she covered financial news which frequently intersected with fashion news and personalities.

Congratulations to the officers and three members of the Board, who were voted in by acclamation at the November 12 meeting:

I am gratified to have this first opportunity to address you as your new AMHS President. As we all know, Maria D’Andrea-Yothers did an outstanding job before me