by John Mancini | Oct 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
The media, in all its forms, can slice and dice history as well as current events. Recently, Long Island’s Newsday, which has a virtual monopoly in a suburban market of 3 million people, profiled a local 99-year-old veteran who “survived two years in an Italian...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Daily Herald, a newspaper that covers much of the northwest suburbs of Chicagoland, recently published an Op-Ed of mine written for Italian Heritage Month. Rather than discuss the usual battles over Columbus, I wanted to expand peoples’ knowledge of less...
by John Mancini | Oct 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
The PBS series Secrets of the Dead aired a new episode on recent archeology around Great Zimbabwe (right), an area of stone ruins in the country of Zimbabwe, sub-Saharan Africa. The show is titled “Africa’s Golden City.” The ruins are well-known and quite...
by Bob Masullo | Oct 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Francesco Lo Vecchio was the most successful singer to come out of Chicago. He sold millions of records, appeared in movies, had his own TV show and was a major part of the ’40s to ’69s era when Italian-Americans dominated pop music charts. Lo Vecchio, better...
by Rosario Iaconis | Oct 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Joe DiMaggio and actress Gina Lollobrigida greet crowds at New York’s Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 14, 1991. Rosario’s is behind the man with glasses.(AP Photo/Joe Major) Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day soliloquy comes to mind when I think back to the...
by John Mancini | Oct 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
This route to the New World missed the cod-rich Grand Banks There’s a 9-mile stretch of the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn leading to the Verrazzano Bridge with a small sign designing it as “Leif Ericson Drive.” It was so named by the New York City Council in 1969 to...
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