Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
South End – features numerous Italian-American restaurants, festivals, and landmarks. Urban and commercial in character, this neighborhood was hard hit by the June 1, 2011 tornado. Includes the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; however, it is separated from it by Interstate 91. Upper Hill – features Wesson Park.
At a time when some ethnic festivals in Connecticut struggle to keep going, Rocky Hill‘s Italian-American community is working against that trend: Next month it’s launching the town’s ...
The festival, which offers Greek food, pastries, and music, is one of the premier Greek festivals in the region. [104] Hoop City Jazz Festival: an annual event. [105] Mattoon Street Arts Festival. [106] Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society Festival: a mid-July celebration of Italian feast days in Springfield's South End, featuring food and a parade ...
The Italian Village Festival, now called the Italian Heritage Festival, moved from Connecticut Street on the West Side to Hertel Avenue in North Buffalo in 1988. From the 1950s until the late 1970s, North Buffalo was the historic center of Buffalo's Jewish community.
Italian Americans in Boston still hold several of these festivals each year. Some are three-day street festivals complete with parades, fireworks, contests, live music, and Italian food concessions. Others, due to shifts in the population, have become smaller-scale events consisting mainly of a mass and a procession.
Two models put on on quite a show at the 73rd annual Venice Film Festival. Italian models Giulia Salemi and Dayane Mello definitely raised eyebrows when they hit the red carpet for the television ...
In 1970, there were 202,373 Italian immigrants and children of Italian immigrants living in the Chicago area, making up about 3% of the total population. By 1970, a majority of the ethnic Italians in the Chicago area lived in suburban communities such as Berwyn, Cicero, and Oak Park. That year, Rudolph J. Vacoli stated that "vestiges" of former ...
Copp's Hill is the largest geographic feature and is close to the center of the neighborhood. The North End's modern boundaries are to the northeast of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway , with the outlet of the Charles and Mystic Rivers to the North, and Boston Harbor to the East.