Chiamateci pazzi – call us crazy – but we are fans of winter. OK, we detest ice, sleet, and power outages like everyone else but we look forward to cold weather

The picturesque small town of Toro is located 8 kilometers east of Campobasso, in the region of Molise. The town has approximately 1,513 inhabitants, known as Toresi. Toro is located on a hilly area that rises along the tratturo (shepherd’s trail) going through Abruzzo

The beautiful town of Farindola is located 45 kilometers from Pescara in the region of Abruzzo. Farindola has approximately 2,040 inhabitants, known as Farindolesi. Farindola has recently become known worldwide

The timing could not have been better than early November 2016 for a trip to southern Italy. The weather was sunny and in the low 60s, and the rainy season had not yet begun. As an added plus, some of the cities had already begun putting up their beautiful

I am very proud of my granddaughter, Elena Byrne, who received

The 2017 NIAF Retreat was held on January 12-13, 2017 at NIAF Headquarters in Washington, DC. This was an opportunity for NIAF staff, Board members

A crowd of 200 people turned out for the “Canti di emigrazione e nostalgia” (“Songs of migration and longing”) event at Casa Italiana on February 5, 2017, among them many AMHS members who were either performers or attendees

The two winners of the NIAF/AMHS scholarship for the 2016-2017 academic year addressed the AMHS General Society Meeting on January 29th. Salvatore Pitino and Nicholas Rao each took a turn at the

We were off to a running start with our first program of the year. We had 85 attendees on January 29, 2017, and the number of favorable comments, during and after the program, showed that it was a big

For our second program of the year, we are so pleased to have as our speaker a prolific author who also teaches at the Casa Italiana Language School.

I was sorry to have missed the first general Society meeting of the year, which I understand was quite successful in terms of the presentation by the First Counselor, Embassy of Italy; the presentation by the two scholarship winners