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(from 2012...) Christmas holidays and family gatherings are lifetime special memories and there’s plenty to go around. Some are family favorites, others outside the household. One fond remembrance occurred at a time when our five children were...

(from 2002...) Italians are deeply concerned about their children’s future and realize that education is the key to a better life. Our parents and grandparents, immigrants or not, also made it clear there was more to life than material success....

(from 2014...) My nonno, Calogero (Charles) Lardomita, emmigrated from Palermo, Sicily and my nonna, Mary Riccobuono, was from Sant’ Agata, Sicily. They were typical, hard working people who had no “safety nets,” using only what monies were earned...

(from 2013...) In my younger days I took a bit of French in elementary school, and in junior high school Spanish from Miss Do, but at The Ohio State University it was Italian. My professor was a non-Italian named Ollie Moore and each morning he...

In the 1972 movie classic ‘The Godfather,’ Francis Ford Coppola  directed  what has come to be one of the most memorable wedding scenes in cinema history.  The scene took a week to film and used 750 extras. The wedding...

Where have all the fruit peddlers gone? For that matter, where has a large segment of the Northern Ohio wholesale produce brokers at the 88- year-old central receiving and distribution center on Croton Avenue (off E. 40th Woodland Ave.)...

This month, 26 years ago, I’m sitting in my little office on Rt. 6 in Willoughby Hills when a lady walked in and asked me to join her in publishing an Italian American newspaper. I told her I would, provided I control all the copy/editorial...

There was a time when Japan had a lock on the Easter lily business in the U.S. Native to Japan, the flower was largely imported into the U.S. from the Japanese. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the supply was suddenly cut off, making Easter lilies...

Baseball is in the air and the Major League teams are spring training in the warm spots of the U.S. It’s amazing how things have changed in the game during the years I’ve been a baseball fan and I reach back a long time ago. In...

During my Italian studies, many years ago at The Ohio State University, the required reading in my advanced courses included three literature masterpieces. I’m sure it must be mandatory reading in most Italian schools. My favorite two were...