By Pete Kennedy Sunday, April 28, will be a busy day for Nancy DiMenco. She’ll be helping to run two events benefiting Italian heritage organizations. First, a meet-the-author event hosted […]
By Pete Kennedy Twelve days afloat — that’s what separated Ralph Chieffo’s life in Italy and his life in America. When he was 7 years old, he boarded an ocean […]
By Charlie Sacchetti If you took a look at Joe Smith back in the ’50s and early ’60s, envisioning a hero wouldn’t have been your first thought. “Smitty” was a […]
By Pete Kennedy Father Francis Rinaldi, OSFS, is celebrating a lot of milestones in 2019. This year marks 60 years since he graduated from Salesianum High School, 60 years […]
By Charlie Sacchetti I think it must be part of the genetic makeup of Italian-American “housewives” over 50. If in fact it isn’t, I sure can site several cases that […]
By Pete Kennedy Marty Cappelletti used to build a lot of shelves. When he was in his mid-20s, he started a construction business, and, as it grew, his office filled […]
Zesty tomato pie: One of cousin Frank’s signature creations. By Charlie Sacchetti When I was a kid I thought it was pretty cool that we had a bunch of cousins […]
Anthony Bellapigna takes his custom-built pizza truck — a green Ford F-350 with an unmistakable copper oven on the bed — to community events. By Pete Kennedy “Everything tells a […]
By Charlie Sacchetti After recent surgery, my recuperation has provided me with a lot of time to think. I remember that during my hospital stay, in late March, my thoughts […]
By Pete Kennedy Frank Varone grew up the son of a shoemaker, but his parents never intended for him to join the family business. After graduating from high school in […]
By Pete Kennedy “I’m not an early, early riser,” Dr. Rosalie Mirenda says. “I like to be in my bed until 6 o’clock or so, and then I get up […]
By Charles Sacchetti In the 1950s, as a kid growing up in my Southwest Philly neighborhood, I like many others knew where I would spend about an hour or so […]
By Pete Kennedy Love brought Joseph Rollo to America. He was a teenager from Sicily when he first visited the United States and met Anna Maria, the woman he would […]
By Gabe Spadaccini When we think of Italians, certain things come to mind: food, wine, romance, coffee, conversation, etc. Seldom do we think of professional athletes as part of everyday […]
By Pete Kennedy Early in his career, Pete Giorgi Sr. worked as an engineering technical illustrator at DuPont, in the atomic energy department that was responsible for designing the Savannah […]
Prime Minister Gentiloni a sharp change from Renzi ANSA ROME — Italy’s new Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, could scarcely be less like his frenetic forerunner, Matteo Renzi. In place of […]
By Pete Kennedy “Italian is the modern Latin.” So says Maria Teresa Morrison, who speaks with some authority on matters of language, having spent 32 years teaching Italian, French and […]
Italian-American Herald Members of UNICO-Delaware District 1 and St. Edmond Church Choir gathered at the Harbor Health Rehabilitation Center in Lewes on Dec. 3 to share the spirit of Christmas. Patients […]
By Peg DeGrassa, Delco News Network Standing before an audience of almost 700 attendees, legendary performer and Vietnam veteran Bobby Rydell, choked-up and emotional, proclaimed, “We are united, the United […]
By Charles Sacchetti It all started in the spring of 1972. One of the perks of my job, in Temple University’s Athletic Department, involved my using the facilities on a […]
By Pete Kennedy Anthony Albence didn’t realize he was preparing for a job safeguarding democracy when he’d listen to college kids try to wriggle out of being punished for sneaking […]
By Pete Kennedy “When I was growing up, we thought the whole world was Italian Catholic, because that’s all we saw,” said Rev. Nick Martorano, O.S.A. An Augustinian priest, Martorano […]
By Pete Kennedy Gabriella Finizio knows the value of speaking a foreign language — and the impediments of not speaking one. “I arrived in the United States without really knowing […]
Dr. Joseph Storlazzi, a well-known Wilmington pediatrician and Italian-American community supporter, was this year’s recipient of the Wilmington-New Castle Pediatric Association’s Ricardo Castro, M.D. Community Service Award. Dr. Storlazzi, with […]
Journey to the top echelons of city government started in his neighborhood By Pete Kennedy When Michael DiBerardinis first moved to Philadelphia in the ’70s, his adoptive Kensington neighborhood was […]
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