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# 57 • APRIL 5 , 2015
# 57 •APRIL 5
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EDITORIAL #57:
What’s up with WTI
By Umberto Mucci
tour of how Italian traditions celebrate Easter
all over Italy? That’s all you will find in this issue
of We the Italians magazine, and many more
too! Besides this editorial and the interview to
Thomas Gambino about Italians in Hawaii (beautiful stories there, don’t miss it!), this issue has
20 columns!
We the Italians is organizing, together with a
small group of dedicated professionals here in
Rome, a wonderful event that will celebrate two
great Italian Americans. On May 18 the great
We the Italians would like to wish you a Happy Tony Lo Bianco will bring his “Little Flower”, the
Easter! Spring has come, Italy is beautiful, and one man show about Fiorello La Guardia, here
herein Italy everybody’s thinking about how in Italy’s capital city. We’re honored, proud and
and where to spend this holiday. The motto happy about this wonderful event, another ochere is “Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi” casion for us to show to Italians who live in Italy
(Christmas you’re your family, Easter with who- why we have to learn from and be thankful to
ever you want), but rest assured that the Italian the Italian American community. Can’t wait!!
tradition wants the family to stick together as
long as we can.
Maybe we’ll go visit some of the Italian excellences We the Italians is telling you about in this
issue: an art exhibition in Emilia Romagna? Traces of the Roman empire in Friuli Venezia Giulia? An orange tasting in Sicily? The gardens of
Villa d’Este in Lazio? The handmade bagpipes
in Molise? Birdwatching in Sardinia? A beautiful
historical little town in Basilicata? The fantastic
wines of Trentino Alto Adige? Or maybe the
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is growing very good, but the more we’ll be
there, the better. So, would you like to be the
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Before to say goodbye, let me remind you the
awesome opportunity given by the partnership
between John Cabot University and We The Italian: two brand new Italian-American Heritage
Scholarship. You can find the specifics in this
previous editorial, or you can contact [email protected] for more information.
That’s all for now. So stay tuned, fasten your
seat belt and enjoy the ride. The future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades!
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THE INTERVIEW:
THOMAS GAMBINO
By Umberto Mucci
One of the personalities I recently interviewed asked me
if I wanted to look for Italian
traces in every one of the 50
States. I answered that maybe
I would have, and started to
think about the one State where maybe it would have been
more difficult to do that. Maybe Hawaii, I thought. But then
no: Italians have been and
are everywhere in the world,
Hawaii included, I said to myself.
a Hawaiian woman and is the
author of the book “The Scattered Italians: Reflections on a
Heroic Journey”. Thomas will
help us know how even Hawaii
And so, here we are with my have something Italian in their
good friend Thomas Gambi- history, in their architecture
no, a very proud Italian Ame- and in their lifestyle.
rican of Sicilian descent who
lives in Honolulu, is married to
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