by John Mancini | Feb 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
It was a Roman who penned the words everyone should live by: Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (“A sound mind in a healthy body”). The Greeks invented the 4-year Olympics but the Romans made sports a daily competition. When Italic settlers colonized...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
I mentioned in my last blog that even the coldest places on Earth (in the previous case, Alaska) have been touched by that great Italian hand (explorer Alessandro Malaspina). It’s now fitting to see what Italians are up to on their own turf during wintertime....
by John Mancini | Feb 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Forget Presidents’ Day! The day we should be celebrating is February 15th; the day navigator Amerigo Vespucci took command of a Portuguese ship in 1502 and added two new continents to the world map. Amerigo Vespucci 1454-1512, aged 57 We all know the story of...
by Rosario Iaconis | Feb 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
[The following essay was published in the NY Daily News on 14 February 2026] What is the perfect Valentine’s Day movie? Why, Rio Bravo, of course. According to Quentin Tarantino: “There are certain movies that you hang out with the characters so much that they...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
With colder temps comes thoughts of colder climates—the state of Alaska, for example. Never visited, but it’s on my (ice?) bucket list. Why Alaska? Well, everyone knows Mt. McKinley—or, rather, its original Indigenous name of Denali (“the tall...
by John Mancini | Feb 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Last October, the Commission for Social Justice, an arm of the Sons and Daughters of Italy, tried to distribute positive image material to New York City libraries in celebration of Italian History Month. Two Manhattan libraries considered the material...
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