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My Italian Family!!: These are observations from my grandmother's "Family & Friends Day" event at her house in Yorba Linda, California. I think the year was 2017. It was just "a party to celebrate life," as my grandmother put it, as most of the people there only got together for weddings and

Ciao amici! I just wanted to share with you the website I just launched! TheItalianCalifornian.com! Like this almanac and the organizations behind and that sponsor it, my mission is to give more exposure to the Italian American community and its heritage in California to the world. I hope you wil

San Diego, CA- On Sunday, June 26th, 2022, Cardinal-elect Robert McElroy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego led a religious procession through the streets of downtown San Diego, CA. It marched from Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, an Italian National Parish in Little Italy, to the

The Italian American Civic Association of San Diego (IACA) held their annual Christmas party fundraiser on Sunday, December 12th, 2021. It was held at Gaetano’s Pizza Ristorante in Lakeside, California. This annual party raises funds for the Association itself and for the various charities it suppor

Christmas season 2021 is almost here and that means getting excited for familiar and comforting traditions, great food, gifts, parties, and getting together with family. For many it is their favorite holiday, not so much for the material or financial gifts they receive but for the gifts of family

My Italian Family!!: I originally posted this as a private message to a friend on Facebook, but just thought it was too cute (and funny?) not to share here!: The following is about my paternal grandmother's "Family & Friends Day" event at her house. This was in Yorba Linda, a middle to upper-class

The Convivio Society in San Diego which "...provides advocates, donors, and volunteers the organizational capacity to advance Italian cultural identity, preserve Italian cultural-heritage assets, cultivate community and fellowship, and foster multicultural awareness through the humanities," has c

On Sunday, October 24th, 2021, the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America OSDIA Fratllanza Garibaldina Lodge #1627 Vice President Grace Ingrande gave a wonderful and insightful talk on "What Empowerment Means to Italian American Women Today." The talk was given at the lodge's 89th Anniv

A New Book by an Italifornian The Classroom of Life by Dr. Tony Cedolini was published on May 28th, 2021. It took 53 years to collect a compendium of useful knowledge from many diverse gurus and sages of the past. Whether you’re a child, young adult, parent or grandparent, this book will assist

Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, an Italian National Parish in San Diego's Little Italy, in April 2019, pic by Christopher Forte Ciao! It is Holy Week for us Catholics and my parish is just so beautiful I have to share it! It is an Italian National Parish in a Little Italy neighborhood aft

Ciao! My name is Christopher Forte. My paternal grandfather's parents immigated from Palermo in the early 1920s and settled in Brooklyn, New York. My paternal grandmother's parents came from Naples and before that they were Albanians who fled there to escape the Turks. Her parents immigrated to the

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After viewing the YouTube video posted on OAHIC this Holy Week, March 10-15, 2023, of the elaborate hand-crafted dried palm weaving, it was reminiscent of how My Mother use to weave the crosses with her group from St. Joseph's of Cupertino Catholic Church. The group was YLI Young Ladies Institu

With the celebration of Columbus Day Monday, October 10 2022 in the near future, let us not forget the history of how and why this law came to be!

Italian Americans hold two countries close to our hearts: Italy, the ancient land of our forefathers and ancestors, and for some recent emigres, their recent former homeland, and the United States of America, our new home. We are a very patriotic community, loving and respecting our new homeland as

Joseph Balistreri of D’Aquisto Farms Keeps the Family Farm & His Family’s Italian American Heritage Alive by Christopher Forte According to the American Farmland Trust (AFT), California loses 50,000 acres of farmland annually, and is facing a “crossroads” as the housing supply crisis accelerates

After being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, Little Italy San Diego’s Annual Christmas Tree Lighting and Christmas Village was back. I was able to capture the Tree Lighting Ceremony that had dignitaries like San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and State Assemblyman Christopher Ward. Other speakers inc

Thanksgiving is coming up soon this year for us Americans and being a quintessential and distinctive American holiday, I’m sure many of us want to keep it as traditional as possible. That is with the traditional foods: turkey and stuffing, yams, mashed potatoes, corn (on or off the cob), and dess

After a year and a half of being closed by the covid lockdowns and mandates, the House of Italy at Balboa Park in San Diego has resumed in-person meetings. Its next meeting is Sunday, November 21st where Louis Pechi will share his book "I Am Lobo" from the Italian perspective and Megan Rigby wil

On Sunday, October 24th the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) Fratellanza Garibaldina Lodge #1627 in San Diego, California announced their "Italian American of the Year" for 2021. It was at their 89th Anniversary Dinner Dance and unfortunately their honoree, Tom Cesarini

San Pedro's "Little Italy" In 2019 the Los Angeles neighborhood of San Pedro, located on the coast adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles, the largest in the nation, was officially designated "Little Italy" by the Los Angeles City Council. These ethnic designations of different neighborhoods, like C

In an introduction to my site, I shared a story that I discovered about a reason for the migration of so many people from my ancestorial village, Verbicaro, Prov Cosenza, Calabria. during the 1910s through the so-called "great war"(nothing great about it!) in 1916. It seems the relatively new King

My parish, Our Lady of the Rosary (OLR), is an Italian National Parish in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood and as such holds many traditional Italian Catholic saint feast day Masses and events. Sadly, they were all postponed or celebrated via video with only a few select in person attendees

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