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EDITORIAL #56:
What’s up with WTI
By Umberto Mucci
I’ve recently had the honor of
representing We the Italians
at RAI Community – L’altra Italia, the TV show for the Italians
abroad hosted on Rai Italia.
This time I’ve had the opportunity to talk about the emigration and a few important characters from Emilia Romagna,
my father’s region, where my
roots lie. For our readers who
are interested in this topic, in
the United States the episode
will be aired on Thursday April
2, 6,30 pm EST. See you there!
We the Italians has participated to the event organized by
NIAF on March 12 in Miami as
a preview of Expo 2015 exhibition, that will start on May 1
in Milan. Our Alessio Gambino
attended the event, and did a
couple of brief interviews to
three among the most famous
and important personalities of
the Italian American community: the wonderful Lidia Bastianich, NIAF President and Chief
Operating Officer, my good
friend John Viola, and NIAF
Vice Chair Patricia de Stacy
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Harrison. You can find them in our special at the partnership with the Italian Botanical Heritage,
center of this magazine’s issue.
a project aimed at fostering the knowledge of
the Italian botanical, artistic and cultural Italian
heritage, and the development of green tourism in Italy.
Before to say goodbye, let me remind you the
awesome opportunity given by the partnership
Another column about another magnificent between John Cabot University and We The ItaItalian excellence starts on our magazine from lian: two brand new Italian-American Heritage
now on: Italian gardens. In every one of our Scholarship. You can find the specifics in our
numbers we will talk about a wonderful villa, a previous editorial, or you can contact admisbotanical garden, a beautiful park of a different [email protected] for more information.
region. Italy is greener than any other European
country, and this is exactly what this is about: That’s all for now. So stay tuned, fasten your
we’ll start from Villa Caristo in Stignano, Cala- seat belt and enjoy the ride. The future’s so bribria. This column is brought to us thanks to our ght, we gotta wear shades!
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THE INTERVIEW:
ADAM KAPLAN
By Umberto Mucci
In our discovery of new points
of view from which to analyze
the relationship between Italy
and the US, today we want to
talk about Sister Cities programs. There is an American
institution, called “Sister Cities
International”, which takes care
of these aspect of how the US
partner up with other coun-
tries.
Italians always says that Italy
needs more America, and this
So we are happy today to have absolutely is one way to achieas our guest Adam Kaplan, ve that. A very interesting one.
Vice President of “Sister Cities
International”, who will tell us Adam, you spent 4 years in
something about how the par- Florence. Please tell us sotnership between Italy and the mething about your expeUS from this angle. And let us rience and how it helped you
give you a sneak peek: We the learning things that you have
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